The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 8

When the tales are found they are adapted to the needs of British children by various hands, the Editor doing little beyond guarding the interests of propriety, and toning down to mild reproofs the tortures inflicted on wicked stepmothers, and other naughty characters.

Who acts: various hands, Editor · What happens: find, adapt, do, guard, tone down, inflict · To what, where: tales, needs, little, interests, mild reproofs, British children

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 (various hands, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 found	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tales	det
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux:pass
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 adapted	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 adapted	aux:pass
8	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 found	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 needs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 needs	det
11	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 adapted	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 children	case
13	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 children	amod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 needs	nmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 hands	case
16	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	amod
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 adapted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Editor	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Editor	det
20	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	parataxis
21	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 Editor	acl
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 doing	obj
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	24 guarding	mark
24	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 doing	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 interests	det
26	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 guarding	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 propriety	case
28	propriety	propriety	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 interests	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 toning	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 toning	cc
31	toning	tone	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 doing	conj
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 toning	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 reproofs	case
34	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 reproofs	amod
35	reproofs	reproof	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 toning	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tortures	det
37	tortures	torture	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 reproofs	conj
38	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 reproofs	acl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 stepmothers	case
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stepmothers	amod
41	stepmothers	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 inflicted	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 characters	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 characters	cc
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 characters	amod
45	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 characters	amod
46	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 doing	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		the tales		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	adapt	present · passive	various hands	Tales = tale	to the needs of British children goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to need=Goal
3	do	gerund	the Editor not said here	little	other naughty characters obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality
4	guard	gerund	the Editor not said here	the interests of propriety		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Beneficiary
5	tone down	gerund	the Editor not said here		to mild reproofs and the tortures; down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	inflict	participle		mild reproofs and the tortures not said here	on wicked stepmothers	tree rules
7	need			British children		nom need «state transitive»: of=patient
8	interest			propriety		nom interest «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: «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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