The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 47

If so, you will remember how the two Scotch children found in Russia were taken care of by the French soldiers and prevented as far as possible from suffering from the horrors of the terrible Retreat.

Who acts: you, French soldiers · What happens: remember, find, take, prevent, suffer · To what, where: two Scotch children, Russia, horrors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (you, French soldiers), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	2 so	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 remember	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 remember	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remember	aux
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 taken	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 children	nummod
10	Scotch	scotch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taken	nsubj:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 children	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Russia	case
14	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 remember	ccomp
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	16 taken	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 soldiers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 soldiers	det
21	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 soldiers	amod
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taken	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 prevented	cc
24	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 taken	conj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 prevented	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 possible	mark
28	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 far	advcl
29	from	from	SCONJ	_	30 suffering	mark
30	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 prevented	advcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 horrors	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 horrors	det
33	horrors	horror	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 suffering	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Retreat	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Retreat	det
36	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Retreat	amod
37	Retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 horrors	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	future	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	participle		the two Scotch children not said here	Russia		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	take	past · passive	the French soldiers	the two Scotch children			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Theme care=Destination
4	prevent	participle	the French soldiers not said here			far property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	suffer	gerund	the French soldiers not said here		the horrors of the terrible Retreat		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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