The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 160

SHE would not let a handsome young fellow like that be beheaded; but how to prevent it was not quite clear at the moment.

Who acts: shame, handsome young fellow, One · What happens: not let, behead, prevent, not be · To what, where: handsome young fellow

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, handsome young fellow, One), 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	SHE	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fellow	det
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 beheaded	mark
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 beheaded	nsubj:pass
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 beheaded	aux:pass
12	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fellow	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 prevent	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 prevent	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 prevent	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 prevent	mark
17	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 clear	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 clear	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 clear	advmod
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 clear	advmod
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 prevent	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 moment	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clear	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	shame	a handsome young fellow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme
2	behead	infinitive · passive	a handsome young fellow not said here	a handsome young fellow			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	prevent	to-infinitive	shame not said here				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	not is	past	One		moment	clear property	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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