Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 29

The mill was a neat and well-ordered place, that allowed itself to be sketched and written about; but the miller's daughter did not permit any to sketch or write about her.

Who acts: mill, neat place, daughter · What happens: be, allow, sketch, write, not permit · To what, where: neat place, mill, any

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, neat place, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mill	det
2	mill	mill	NOUN	_	10 place	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
5	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ordered	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 ordered	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	ordered	ordered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 neat	conj
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 allowed	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 allowed	nsubj
13	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	acl:relcl
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 allowed	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 sketched	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 sketched	aux:pass
17	sketched	sketch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 allowed	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 written	cc
19	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sketched	conj
20	about	about	ADP	_	19 written	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 permit	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 permit	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 miller	det
24	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 miller	case
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 permit	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 permit	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 permit	advmod
29	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 place	parataxis
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 permit	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sketch	mark
32	sketch	sketch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 permit	xcomp
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 write	cc
34	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sketch	conj
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 write	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the mill	a neat place		tree rules
2	allow	past	a neat place	mill		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer itself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	sketch not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	mill not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»
4	write	participle	mill not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not permit	past · do-support	the miller's daughter	any		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer any=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	sketch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the miller's daughter not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	write	infinitive	the miller's daughter not said here		about daughter	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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