Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 9

Little children, not quite understanding what is said to them, often get such absurd notions into their heads, you know.

Who acts: Little children, you · What happens: not understand, say, get, know · To what, where: children, such absurd notions, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little children, you), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 understanding	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 understanding	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understanding	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 understanding	advmod
6	understanding	understand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux:pass
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 understanding	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understanding	conj
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 notions	amod
16	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 notions	amod
17	notions	notion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 get	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 heads	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 get	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understanding	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understanding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	gerund	Little children					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present · passive			children = child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient
3	get	present	Little children not said here	such absurd notions		children's heads	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer notion=Stimulus
4	know	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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