The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 108

The bird was buttoned inside his tunic, but, as might have been expected, the courtiers barred the way, and told the child that he could not enter.

Who acts: courtiers, king · What happens: button, expect, bar, tell, not enter · To what, where: bird, tunic, way, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buttoned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buttoned	aux:pass
4	buttoned	button	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 tunic	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tunic	nmod:poss
7	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buttoned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 expected	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 expected	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 expected	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 expected	mark
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 expected	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 expected	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 expected	aux:pass
15	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 buttoned	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 barred	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 courtiers	det
18	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 barred	nsubj
19	barred	bar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buttoned	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 barred	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 barred	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	iobj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 enter	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 enter	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 enter	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 enter	advmod
31	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 buttoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	button	past · passive		the bird		king's tunic	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	expect	might · perfect · passive					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»
3	bar	past	the courtiers	the way			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the courtiers not said here		the child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not enter not said to happen	could	king				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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: «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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