The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 93

I really could not allow that,' answered Gudu. '

Who acts: I · What happens: not allow, answer · To what, where: that, Gudu

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 allow	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 allow	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allow	advmod
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 allow	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	parataxis
10	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 allow	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	could	I	that					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary
2	answer speech: assert	past			Gudu				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gudu=Eventuality

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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