Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 12

That children naturally take a deep interest in such stories, no person can deny; that the reading of them will not only give pleasure, but will help to lay the foundation for broader literary studies, can scarcely be doubted.

Who acts: children, person, reading · What happens: take, deny, not give, help, lay, doubt · To what, where: deep interest, such stories, pleasure, foundation, children

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, person, reading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 interest	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 interest	amod
7	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 stories	case
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stories	amod
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 interest	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deny	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deny	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 deny	aux
15	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 give	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reading	det
19	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reading	nmod
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 give	advmod
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 give	advmod
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 deny	conj
26	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 help	cc
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 help	aux
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 lay	mark
32	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 help	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 foundation	det
34	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 studies	case
36	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 studies	amod
37	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 studies	amod
38	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lay	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 doubted	punct
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 doubted	aux
41	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	43 doubted	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 doubted	aux:pass
43	doubted	doubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 help	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	that children	a deep interest	such stories	naturally property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in story=Location
2	deny	can	no person				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not give	future	the reading of children	pleasure			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
4	help	future	that children not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	lay	to-infinitive	that children not said here	the foundation		for broader literary studies	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent foundation=Result for study=Beneficiary
6	doubt	can · passive	that children not said here			scarcely property	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»
7	read			children = child			nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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