The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 14
But children remain unaware of the facts, and so do their dear mothers; whence the Editor infers that they do not read his prefaces, and are not members of the Folk Lore Society, or students of Herr Kohler and M. Cosquin, and M. Henri Guidoz and Professor Child, and Mr. Max Muller.
Who acts: children, Editor · What happens: remain, do, infer, not read, not be, preface · To what, where: unaware, dear mothers, prefaces, members
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Editor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 remain | cc |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remain | nsubj |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unaware | unaware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 facts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 facts | det |
| 7 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 unaware | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remain | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mothers | amod |
| 14 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 infers | punct |
| 16 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 infers | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Editor | det |
| 18 | Editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 infers | nsubj |
| 19 | infers | infer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 read | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 read | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 read | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 read | advmod |
| 24 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 infers | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prefaces | nmod:poss |
| 26 | prefaces | preface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 read | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 members | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 members | cc |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 members | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 members | advmod |
| 31 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 infers | advcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Society | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Society | det |
| 34 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Society | compound |
| 35 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Society | compound |
| 36 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 members | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 students | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 students | cc |
| 39 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 infers | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Kohler | case |
| 41 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Kohler | compound |
| 42 | Kohler | Kohler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 students | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 M. | cc |
| 44 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Kohler | conj |
| 45 | Cosquin | Cosquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 M. | flat |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 Muller | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 Muller | cc |
| 48 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Guidoz | compound |
| 49 | Henri | Henri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Guidoz | compound |
| 50 | Guidoz | Guidoz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 Muller | nsubj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 Professor | cc |
| 52 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Guidoz | conj |
| 53 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Professor | flat |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 Muller | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 Muller | cc |
| 56 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Max | nmod:desc |
| 57 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 Muller | compound |
| 58 | Muller | Muller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Kohler | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | children | unaware of the facts | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unaware=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | children not said here | children's dear mothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | infer | present | the Editor | whence property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not read | present · do-support | children = child | Editor's prefaces | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | the Editor not said here | members | of the Folk Lore Society | tree rules | |||
| 6 | preface | Editor | nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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