The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 16

In many tales, fairly cruel and savage deeds are done, and these have been softened down as much as possible; though it is impossible, even if it were desirable, to conceal the circumstance that popular stories were never intended to be tracts and nothing else.

Who acts: narrative · What happens: do, soften down, be, conceal, not intend · To what, where: cruel deeds, many tales, these, circumstance, popular stories, tracts

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (narrative), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 tales	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tales	amod
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 done	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tales	punct
5	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	6 cruel	advmod
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deeds	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 savage	cc
8	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cruel	conj
9	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 done	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux:pass
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 softened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 softened	cc
14	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 softened	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 softened	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 softened	aux:pass
17	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 done	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 softened	compound:prt
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 softened	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 possible	mark
22	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 much	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 impossible	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 impossible	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 impossible	expl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 impossible	cop
27	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 done	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 desirable	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	33 desirable	advmod
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 desirable	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 desirable	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 desirable	cop
33	desirable	desirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 impossible	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 conceal	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 conceal	mark
36	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 circumstance	det
38	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 conceal	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 intended	obj
40	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stories	amod
41	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 intended	nsubj:pass
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 intended	aux:pass
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 intended	advmod
44	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 circumstance	acl:relcl
45	to	to	PART	_	47 tracts	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 tracts	cop
47	tracts	tract	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 intended	ccomp
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 nothing	cc
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	47 tracts	conj
50	else	else	ADV	_	49 nothing	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		cruel deeds	many tales		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	soften down	present · perfect · passive		these			tree rules
3	is	present				impossible property	tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	narrative			desirable property	tree rules
5	conceal	to-infinitive		the circumstance			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Patient
6	not intend	past · passive		popular stories			tree rules
7	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		tracts			tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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