The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 16

These fairy tales are the oldest stories in the world, and as they were first made by men who were childlike for their own amusement, so they amuse children still, and also grown-up people who have not forgotten how they once were children.

Who acts: fairy tales, men, tales, grown people · What happens: be, make, amuse, grow up, not forget · To what, where: oldest stories, world, tales, children

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 (fairy tales, men, tales, grown 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 tales	det
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tales	amod
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stories	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stories	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
6	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stories	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux:pass
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stories	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 men	case
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 childlike	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 childlike	cop
22	childlike	childlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 amusement	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 amusement	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 amusement	amod
26	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 childlike	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 amuse	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 amuse	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 amuse	nsubj
30	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stories	parataxis
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 amuse	obj
32	still	still	ADV	_	30 amuse	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 people	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 people	cc
35	also	also	ADV	_	36 grown	advmod
36	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 people	amod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 up	punct
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 grown	compound:prt
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 amuse	obl
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 forgotten	nsubj
41	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 forgotten	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 forgotten	advmod
43	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 people	acl:relcl
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	48 children	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 children	nsubj
46	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	48 children	advmod
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 children	cop
48	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 forgotten	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stories	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this fairy tales	the oldest stories	the world			tree rules
2	make	past · passive	men	tales = tale			first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
3	is	past	men				for men's own amusement; childlike property	tree rules
4	amuse	present	tales = tale	children		still	grown people obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
5	grow up	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not forget	present · perfect	grown people					tree rules
7	is a	past	tales = tale	children			once property	tree rules
8	amuse		men = man					nom amusement «feeling 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 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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