The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 80

Near their hut was a group of birch trees, in which some black-game had made their nests, and the youth had often begged his father’s permission to shoot the birds, but the old man always strictly forbade him to do anything of the kind.

Who acts: old man, father · What happens: be, make, beg, shoot, forbid, do · To what, where: group, hut, black game, youth, birds, anything

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, father), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 hut	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hut	nmod:poss
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 group	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 group	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 group	det
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 group	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	obl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 game	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 game	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 black	punct
16	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 group	parataxis
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 nests	nmod:poss
20	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 begged	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 youth	det
24	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 begged	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 begged	aux
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 begged	advmod
27	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 made	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 permission	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 father	case
31	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 begged	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 shoot	mark
33	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 permission	acl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 birds	det
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shoot	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 forbade	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 forbade	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 man	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 man	amod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 forbade	nsubj
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 man	advmod
42	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	43 forbade	advmod
43	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 begged	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 forbade	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 do	mark
46	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 forbade	advcl
47	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 do	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 kind	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 kind	det
50	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 anything	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 group	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a group	sons's hut	of birch trees	tree rules
2	make	past · perfect · passive		some black game	a group		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product
3	beg speech: request	past · perfect · passive		the youth		youth's father's permission obl; often property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: subject=Recipient
4	shoot	to-infinitive		the birds			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
5	forbid	past	the old man	youth		strictly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
7	permit		youth's father				nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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