The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 63
Father and mother had forbidden this, but Little Lasse forgot.
Who acts: Father, Little Lasse · What happens: forbid, forget · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, Little Lasse), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forbidden | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mother | cc |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | conj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forbidden | aux |
| 5 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 forbidden | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgot | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 forgot | cc |
| 9 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lasse | amod |
| 10 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 forgot | nsubj |
| 11 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forbidden | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forbidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past · perfect | Father and mother | this | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Little Lasse | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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