English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 49

These have been relegated to the obscurity of small print and a back place, while the little ones have been, perhaps unnecessarily, warned off them.

Who acts: little ones · What happens: relegate, be, warn off · To what, where: These, print

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 (little ones), 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	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 relegated	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 relegated	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 relegated	aux:pass
4	relegated	relegate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 obscurity	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 obscurity	det
7	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relegated	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 print	case
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 print	amod
10	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obscurity	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 place	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	compound
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 print	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 been	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 been	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ones	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ones	amod
19	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 been	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 been	aux
21	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 relegated	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unnecessarily	punct
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 unnecessarily	advmod
24	unnecessarily	unnecessarily	ADV	_	26 warned	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 warned	punct
26	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 relegated	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 warned	compound:prt
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 warned	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 relegated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	relegate	present · perfect · passive		These		to the obscurity of small print and a back place	tree rules
2	be	present · perfect	the little ones				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	warn off speech: warn	past			print	unnecessarily property	vn advise-37.9-1 «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: «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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