The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 5

For example, the adventures of “Ball-Carrier and the Bad One” are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink.

Who acts: Red Indian grandmothers, Red Indian children · What happens: tell, not go, see, adventure · To what, where: adventures, school, pen, Ball Carrier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (Red Indian grandmothers, Red Indian children), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 adventures	det
5	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 told	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 Carrier	case
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Carrier	punct
8	Ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Carrier	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Ball	punct
10	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 adventures	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 One	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 One	det
13	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 One	amod
14	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Carrier	conj
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 One	punct
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 grandmothers	case
19	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grandmothers	amod
20	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grandmothers	amod
21	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 told	obl:agent
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 children	case
23	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
24	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grandmothers	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 go	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 children	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 school	case
30	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 see	cc
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	conj
34	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ink	cc
36	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pen	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive	Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children	the adventures of Ball Carrier and the Bad One		for example	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	not go	present	Red Indian children		school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
3	see	infinitive	Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children not said here	pen and ink			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pen=Stimulus
4	adventure			Ball Carrier and the Bad One			nom adventure «act 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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