The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 23

But again the old man interfered, and declared that without the king’s permission no marriage could take place.

Who acts: old man, marriage, king · What happens: interfere, declare, take, permit · To what, where: that, place

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, marriage, 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 interfered	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 interfered	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 interfered	nsubj
6	interfered	interfere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 declared	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 declared	cc
9	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 interfered	conj
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 declared	obj
11	without	without	ADP	_	15 permission	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 permission	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declared	obl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 marriage	det
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 permission	acl:relcl
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 interfered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	interfere	past	the old man		again		tree rules
2	declare speech: other	past	the old man not said here	that		without the king's permission	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Attribute
3	take	could	no marriage	place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	permit		the king				nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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