The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 56

He knows that the children would like it well, and he would gladly give it to them; but about the taste of fond anxious mothers and kind aunts he is not quite so certain.

Who acts: book, children · What happens: know, like, give, not be, taste · To what, where: Harding, children, fond anxious mothers

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 (book, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 like	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knows	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	obj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 like	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	15 give	advmod
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knows	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 certain	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 certain	cc
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 taste	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 taste	det
23	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 certain	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 mothers	case
25	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mothers	amod
26	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mothers	amod
27	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 taste	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 aunts	cc
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 aunts	amod
30	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mothers	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 certain	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 certain	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 certain	advmod
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 certain	advmod
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 certain	advmod
36	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knows	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	book				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	like	would	the children	Harding		well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	give	would	book	Harding	children = child	gladly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient
4	not is	present	book			about the taste of fond anxious mothers and kind aunts; certain property	tree rules
5	taste			fond anxious mothers and kind aunts			nom taste «cognition 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 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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