The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 11

Then, as the world became grown-up, the fairy tales which were not written down would have been quite forgotten but that the old grannies remembered them, and told them to the little grandchildren: and when they, in their turn, became grannies, they remembered them, and told them also.

Who acts: world, old grannies, grannies, tales · What happens: become, grow up, not write down, forget, remember, tell · To what, where: fairy tales, tales, grannies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green 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 (world, old grannies, grannies, tales), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 became	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	xcomp
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 grown	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forgotten	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tales	det
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tales	compound
13	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 forgotten	nsubj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 written	obj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 written	aux:pass
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 written	advmod
17	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tales	acl:relcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 written	compound:prt
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 forgotten	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 forgotten	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 forgotten	aux:pass
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 forgotten	advmod
23	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	conj
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 remembered	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 remembered	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grannies	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grannies	amod
28	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 remembered	nsubj
29	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 forgotten	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 remembered	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 grandchildren	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 grandchildren	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grandchildren	amod
38	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 told	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 remembered	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 remembered	cc
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 became	advmod
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 became	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 turn	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 turn	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 turn	nmod:poss
46	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 became	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 turn	punct
48	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 remembered	advcl
49	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 became	xcomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 became	punct
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 remembered	nsubj
52	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 remembered	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 told	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 told	cc
56	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 remembered	conj
57	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 told	iobj
58	also	also	ADV	_	56 told	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the world			then		tree rules
2	grow up	participle	the world not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not write down	past · passive		the fairy tales				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme
4	forget	would · perfect · passive		the fairy tales				tree rules
5	remember	past	the old grannies	tales = tale				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the world not said here		tales = tale		to the little grandchildren	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to grandchild=Recipient
7	become	past	grannies = grannie	grannies				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	remember	past	tales = tale	grannies = grannie				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	tell speech: assert	past	tales = tale not said here		grannies = grannie			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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