The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 32

And this the boys did, and took such good care of their sister that, as she was very small, she soon forgot that she had ever had a father and mother.

Who acts: boys, sister · What happens: do, take, be, forget, have, care · To what, where: such good care, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, sister), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 did	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 boys	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 care	amod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 care	amod
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sister	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sister	nmod:poss
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 care	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 took	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forgot	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 small	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 small	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 small	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 small	advmod
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 forgot	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 small	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forgot	nsubj
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 forgot	advmod
25	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 had	aux
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 had	advmod
30	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 forgot	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 father	det
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mother	cc
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 father	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	this boys				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	this boys not said here	such good care of others's sister			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme that=Destination
3	is	past	sister			small property	tree rules
4	forget	past	sister			soon property	tree rules
5	have	past · perfect	sister	a father and mother	ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
6	care		others's sister				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 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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