Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 186

She would let no one wait on him but herself.

Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: let · To what, where: one wait

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MIGNON), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 wait	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	compound
6	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wait	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 herself	cc
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 him	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	MIGNON	no one wait				on Wilhelm	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent wait=Theme on he=Asset

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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