The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 66

It is not our business to animadvert upon these lines; we are not critics, but historians.

Who acts: name, we · What happens: not be, animadvert · To what, where: business, critics

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 business	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 business	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 business	advmod
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 business	nmod:poss
5	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 animadvert	mark
7	animadvert	animadvert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 business	acl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 lines	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 lines	det
10	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animadvert	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 critics	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 critics	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 critics	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 critics	advmod
15	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 business	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 historians	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 historians	cc
18	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 critics	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 business	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	name	our business and critics but historians		tree rules
2	animadvert	to-infinitive			upon this lines	tree rules
3	not is a	present	we	critics but historians		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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