The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 67
He said to himself, “God forbid that the veil should be taken in vain from my secret; that would indeed disgrace me.”
Who acts: prince, God, that · What happens: say, forbid, take, disgrace · To what, where: prince, veil, vain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, God, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 forbid | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 forbid | punct |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forbid | nsubj |
| 8 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 veil | det |
| 11 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forbid | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 taken | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 secret | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 secret | nmod:poss |
| 19 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 disgrace | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 disgrace | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 disgrace | aux |
| 23 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 disgrace | advmod |
| 24 | disgrace | disgrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 disgrace | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 disgrace | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 disgrace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | prince | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | forbid in a quote | infinitive | God | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | should · passive | the veil | vain | from my secret | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from secret=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | disgrace in a quote | would | that | prince | indeed property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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