The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 18

When the nobles and other people became rich and educated, they forgot the old stories, but the country people did not, and handed them down, with changes at pleasure, from generation to generation.

Who acts: nobles, country people · What happens: become, forget, not do, hand down · To what, where: old stories, people

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobles, country 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 became	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nobles	det
3	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 became	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 people	cc
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nobles	conj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgot	advcl
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 educated	cc
10	educated	educated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rich	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgot	nsubj
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stories	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stories	amod
16	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forgot	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 did	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 did	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 people	compound
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgot	conj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 did	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 handed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 handed	cc
26	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forgot	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 handed	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 handed	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 changes	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 changes	case
31	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 handed	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 pleasure	case
33	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 changes	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 generation	punct
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 generation	case
36	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 handed	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 generation	case
38	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 generation	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	the nobles and other people		rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	forget	past	nobles = noble	the old stories		tree rules
3	not do	past	the country people			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hand down	past	nobles = noble not said here	people	with changes at pleasure	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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