The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 86

Of course you must not suppose that all the fathers and mothers who had lost children made no attempts to find them, but the forest was so large, and the witch was so cunning in knowing exactly where they were going to search, that it was very easy for her to keep out of the way.

Who acts: you, fathers, forest, witch, children · What happens: not suppose, have, lose, make, find, be · To what, where: lost children, attempts, children, way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fathers, forest, witch), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 suppose	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 suppose	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 suppose	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 suppose	advmod
6	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 fathers	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fathers	det
10	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mothers	cc
12	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fathers	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fathers	acl:relcl
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 suppose	ccomp
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 attempts	det
19	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 find	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 large	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 large	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 forest	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 large	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 large	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 large	advmod
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 suppose	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cunning	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cunning	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 witch	det
33	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cunning	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cunning	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 cunning	advmod
36	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 large	conj
37	in	in	SCONJ	_	38 knowing	mark
38	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 cunning	advcl
39	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	40 where	advmod
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 going	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 going	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 going	aux
43	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 knowing	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 search	mark
45	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 going	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 easy	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 easy	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 easy	expl
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 easy	cop
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 easy	advmod
51	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 search	advcl
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 keep	mark
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 keep	nsubj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 keep	mark
55	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 easy	csubj
56	out	out	ADP	_	59 way	case
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 way	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 way	det
59	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 keep	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not suppose	must	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	all fathers and mothers	lost children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	all fathers and mothers	no attempts		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product
5	find	to-infinitive	all fathers and mothers not said here	children = child		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
6	is	past	the forest		large property	tree rules
7	is	past	the witch		cunning property	tree rules
8	know	gerund	the witch not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	go	past · progressive	children = child			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	search	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
11	is	past	children = child not said here		easy property	tree rules
12	keep out	to-infinitive	witch	the way		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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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