The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 100

“Oh! heaven forbid!” was the reply.

Who acts: heaven · What happens: forbid, be · To what, where: reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven), 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	_	5 forbid	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 heaven	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forbid	nsubj
5	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 reply	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 forbid	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 forbid	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reply	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reply	det
10	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 reply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid in a quote	infinitive	heaven						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	be speech: assert	past		the reply					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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