The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 80

Ah! how sorry Little Lasse was now that he had been disobedient and got into the boat, when father and mother had so often forbidden him to do so!

Who acts: sorry Little Lasse, father · What happens: be, get, have, forbid, do · To what, where: boat, Lasse

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 (sorry Little Lasse, father), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	13 disobedient	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sorry	advmod
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Lasse	amod
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Lasse	amod
6	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 disobedient	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disobedient	cop
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 disobedient	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 disobedient	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 disobedient	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disobedient	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 disobedient	cop
13	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disobedient	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 boat	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boat	det
18	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 had	advmod
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mother	cc
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 father	conj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disobedient	parataxis
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 forbidden	advmod
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 forbidden	advmod
27	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 had	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forbidden	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 forbidden	xcomp
31	so	so	ADV	_	30 do	advmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 disobedient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	sorry Little Lasse			now	disobedient property	tree rules
2	get	past	sorry Little Lasse not said here		the boat			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
3	have	past	father and mother					tree rules
4	forbid	participle	father and mother not said here	Lasse			often property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	father and mother not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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