The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 35

The hearts of the other young men were touched as soon as they heard this story, and they did everything they could think of to make him forget his past sorrows.

Who acts: men, baby · What happens: touch, hear, do, think, make, forget · To what, where: hearts, story, everything, baby, past sorrows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, baby), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hearts	det
2	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 touched	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hearts	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 touched	aux:pass
9	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 touched	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 heard	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 soon	advcl
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 did	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 touched	conj
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 did	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 think	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 think	aux
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 everything	acl:relcl
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 make	mark
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 think	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 make	obj
29	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sorrows	nmod:poss
31	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sorrows	amod
32	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 forget	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past · passive		the hearts of the other young men	soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	hear	past	men = man	this story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	do	past	men = man	everything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	could	men = man			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive		baby		tree rules
6	forget	infinitive	baby not said here	baby's past sorrows		tree rules
7	sorrow		baby			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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