The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 34

The grannies told them to the grandchildren, and when the grandchildren became grannies they repeated the same old tales to the new generation.

Who acts: grannies, grandchildren, alphabets · What happens: tell, become, repeat · To what, where: alphabets, grannies, same old tales, new generation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (grannies, grandchildren, alphabets), 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 grannies	det
2	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 grandchildren	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grandchildren	det
7	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 repeated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 repeated	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 became	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grandchildren	det
12	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 repeated	advcl
14	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	xcomp
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 repeated	nsubj
16	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tales	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tales	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tales	amod
20	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 repeated	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 generation	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 generation	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 generation	amod
24	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 repeated	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the grannies		alphabets = alphabet	to the grandchildren	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to grandchild=Recipient
2	become	past	the grandchildren	grannies			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	repeat	past	alphabets = alphabet	the same old tales	the new generation		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to generation=Recipient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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