The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 60

But when older and better informed persons said that ghosts brought their own light with them (which is too true), then one’s emotions were such as parents do not desire the young to endure.

Who acts: older persons, ghosts, one emotions, parents, persons · What happens: say, bring, be, not desire, endure, light · To what, where: own light, young · 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 (older persons, ghosts, one emotions, parents), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 said	advmod
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 persons	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 informed	cc
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 informed	advmod
6	informed	informed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 older	conj
7	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 brought	mark
10	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	nsubj
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 light	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	obl
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 true	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 true	advmod
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brought	parataxis
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 such	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 such	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 emotions	nummod
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 one	case
27	emotions	emotion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 such	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 such	cop
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	8 said	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 desire	mark
31	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 desire	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 desire	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 desire	advmod
34	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 such	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 young	det
36	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 desire	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 endure	mark
38	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 young	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	older persons				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	past	ghosts	persons's own light		with persons = person	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	is	present				true property	tree rules
4	is	past	one emotions		then	such property	tree rules
5	not desire	present · do-support	parents	the young			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot young=Theme
6	endure	to-infinitive	parents not said here	the young not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	light		persons = person				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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 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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