Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 20

But the others would not let the king go.

Who acts: others, king · What happens: not let, go · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	the others	the king					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the king not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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