English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 40

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

Who acts: Children · What happens: not read · To what, where: dialect

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 read	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 read	cc
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 those	advmod
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 read	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 growth	case
7	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 growth	amod
8	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 those	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 those	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 read	advmod
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 read	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	future	Children	dialect					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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