The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 4

“Your gardeners do not understand their business: but what can you expect of men whose fathers were cobblers and carpenters?

Who acts: gardeners, you, fathers · What happens: not understand, expect, be · To what, where: business, cobblers

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardeners, you, fathers), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 gardeners	nmod:poss
3	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 understand	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 business	nmod:poss
8	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 expect	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 expect	obj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 expect	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 expect	nsubj
14	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 understand	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 men	case
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 expect	obl
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 fathers	nmod:poss
18	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cobblers	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cobblers	cop
20	cobblers	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 men	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carpenters	cc
22	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cobblers	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand in a quote	present · do-support	Your gardeners	gardeners's business		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus
2	expect in a quote	can	you		of men	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	cobblers and carpenters's fathers	cobblers and carpenters		tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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