The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 10

If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say.

Who acts: children, Books, Editor, other people · What happens: be, say, not care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Books, Editor, other people), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 pleased	mark
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pleased	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 care	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kind	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kind	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 kind	advmod
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleased	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 say	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kind	csubj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 pleased	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pleased	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pleased	cop
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 say	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Editor	det
20	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 care	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 care	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 care	advmod
23	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	23 care	advmod
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 say	mark
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 say	obj
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 say	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 care	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	children	pleased property	tree rules
2	is	present	Books = book	kind property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	Books = book	pleased property	tree rules
5	not care	present · do-support	the Editor		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	may	other people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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