English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 12

Dowden remarks, Southey's memory is kept alive more by “The Three Bears” than anything else, and the text of such a nursery classic should be retained in all its purity.

Who acts: Three Bears · What happens: keep, retain · To what, where: memory, text, purity

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three Bears), 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	Dowden	Dowden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remarks	compound
2	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct
4	Southey	Southey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 memory	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Southey	case
6	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux:pass
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 remarks	parataxis
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kept	xcomp
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 alive	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 Bears	case
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Bears	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Bears	det
14	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bears	compound
15	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obl
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Bears	punct
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 anything	case
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 kept	obl
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 anything	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 retained	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 retained	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 text	det
23	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 retained	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 classic	case
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 classic	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 classic	det
27	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 classic	compound
28	classic	classic	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 text	nmod
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 retained	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 retained	aux:pass
31	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 kept	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 purity	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 purity	det:predet
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 purity	nmod:poss
35	purity	purity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 retained	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remarks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive	the Three Bears	Southey's memory				than anything; alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	retain	should · passive		the text of such nursery classic		text's purity			tree rules

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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