The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 36

A wise child will, therefore, remember that, if he grows up and becomes a member of the Folk Lore Society, ALL the tales in this book were not offered to him as absolutely truthful, but were printed merely for his entertainment.

Who acts: wise child, Joan · What happens: remember, grow up, become, not offer, print, entertain · To what, where: member, tales, Joan

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 (wise child, Joan), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remember	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 remember	aux
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 will	punct
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	8 remember	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 therefore	punct
8	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 remember	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grows	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 grows	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 remember	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 grows	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 becomes	cc
16	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 grows	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 member	det
18	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 Society	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Society	det
21	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Society	compound
22	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Society	compound
23	Society	Society	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 member	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 offered	punct
25	ALL	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 tales	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tales	det
27	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 offered	nsubj:pass
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 book	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 book	det
30	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tales	nmod
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 offered	aux:pass
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 offered	advmod
33	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 grows	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 offered	obl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 truthful	mark
37	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	38 truthful	advmod
38	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 offered	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 printed	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 printed	cc
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 printed	aux:pass
42	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 remember	parataxis
43	merely	merely	ADV	_	42 printed	advmod
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 entertainment	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 entertainment	nmod:poss
46	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 printed	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remember	future	a wise child			therefore property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	grow up a condition, not said to happen	present	Joan				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	present	Joan not said here	a member of the Folk Lore Society			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	not offer	past · passive		all tales in this book	Joan		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal
5	print	past · passive				for Joan's entertainment; merely property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»
6	entertain		Joan				nom entertainment «act transitive»: poss=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 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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