The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 67
“No, mother, I cannot let you come,” he answered; “the ground is rough, and you are not strong.”
Who acts: king, you, ground · What happens: not let, come, answer, be, not be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, ground), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 mother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | dislocated |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 let | advmod |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rough | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 rough | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rough | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rough | cop |
| 21 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 let | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 strong | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 strong | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 strong | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 strong | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 strong | advmod |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rough | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | can | king | you | mother dislocated | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the ground | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | you | strong property | 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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