The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 10
He had strict orders to refuse the prince nothing; yet he remembered the prophecy, and felt that this was a serious matter.
Who acts: dog, strict orders, this · What happens: have, refuse, remember, feel, be · To what, where: strict orders, nothing, prophecy, serious matter
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, strict orders, this), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 orders | amod |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 refuse | mark |
| 6 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nothing | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | compound |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 refuse | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 remembered | punct |
| 11 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 remembered | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remembered | nsubj |
| 13 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prophecy | det |
| 15 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remembered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 remembered | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 matter | mark |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 matter | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 matter | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 23 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 matter | amod |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | dog | strict orders | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refuse | to-infinitive | strict orders not said here | nothing | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | dog | the prophecy | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prophecy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | dog not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | this | a serious matter | tree rules |
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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