The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 4

However, as the nyamatsanes did not see this they had no idea that he was not really their grandmother.

Who acts: nyamatsanes, friend · What happens: not see, have, not be · To what, where: this, idea, grandmother

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsanes, friend), 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	However	however	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nyamatsanes	det
5	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	advcl
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 see	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 idea	det
13	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 grandmother	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grandmother	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grandmother	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 grandmother	advmod
18	really	really	ADV	_	20 grandmother	advmod
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 grandmother	nmod:poss
20	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 idea	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	the nyamatsanes	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	have	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane	no idea	however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
3	not is a	past	friend	nyamatsanes's grandmother		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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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