The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 3

But one cannot expect all one's children to be beautiful!'

Who acts: one · What happens: not expect, be · To what, where: children

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	_	5 expect	cc
2	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 expect	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 expect	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 expect	advmod
5	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 children	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 one	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 expect	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 beautiful	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 beautiful	cop
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 expect	advcl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 expect	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not expect	can	one	all one's children					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	one not said here					beautiful property	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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