The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 44
“I am forbidden to tell you anything about it, until I have returned there once more,” replied he.
Who acts: Knight · What happens: forbid, tell, return, reply · To what, where: Knight, anything, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 forbidden | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forbidden | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 4 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tell | mark |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forbidden | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 tell | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 anything | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 returned | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 returned | aux |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 forbidden | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 returned | advmod |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 returned | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forbidden | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 forbidden | punct |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 replied | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid in a quote | present · passive | Knight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | anything | you | about course | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Topic | |||
| 3 | return in a quote | present · perfect | Knight | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Knight | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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