The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 48

One of the soldiers, a Breton, often tried to make them forget how cold and hungry they were by telling them tales of his native country, Brittany, which is full of wonderful things.

Who acts: soldiers, Brittany, native country · What happens: try, make, forget, tell, be · To what, where: soldiers, cold, tales, children · 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 (soldiers, Brittany, native country), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 soldiers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Breton	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Breton	det
7	Breton	Breton	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 soldiers	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tried	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 tried	advmod
10	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 One	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tried	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	xcomp
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 cold	advmod
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 forget	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hungry	cc
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cold	conj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 telling	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 telling	aux
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 telling	mark
22	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cold	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 telling	iobj
24	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 telling	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 country	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 country	nmod:poss
27	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 country	amod
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tales	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Brittany	punct
30	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 country	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 full	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 full	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 full	cop
34	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Brittany	amod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 things	case
36	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 things	amod
37	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 full	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	participle				often property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		soldiers = soldier			tree rules
3	forget not said to happen	infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	cold			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	soldiers = soldier	tales of Russia's native country	children = child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic
5	is	present	Brittany			of wonderful things; full property	tree rules
6	tell		Russia's native country				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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