The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 5

Neglect not to give them education suitable to their birth, and let them be trained up to every exercise and pastime requisite for king’s sons to learn.

Who acts: Neglect, sons · What happens: not give, let, train up, learn · To what, where: education, sons

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neglect, sons), 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	Neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 education	amod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 birth	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 birth	nmod:poss
10	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 suitable	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 trained	aux:pass
16	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 let	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 trained	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 exercise	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 exercise	det
20	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trained	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 requisite	cc
22	pastime	pastime	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 requisite	compound
23	requisite	requisite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exercise	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 sons	case
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sons	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 king	case
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 requisite	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 learn	mark
29	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sons	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not give	to-infinitive	Neglect	education	sons = son		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient education=Theme
2	let	infinitive	Neglect not said here	sons = son			tree rules
3	train up	infinitive · passive	sons = son not said here			to every exercise and pastime requisite for king's sons	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»
4	learn	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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