The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 42

But now,” she added, “let supper be served, and let the musicians be silent, as the Prince does not understand what they are saying.”

Who acts: mother, supper, musicians, Prince, Princes · What happens: add, let, serve, be, not understand, say · To what, where: supper, musicians · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, supper, musicians, Prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 added	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 added	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 added	nsubj
6	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 added	ccomp
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 served	aux:pass
12	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 let	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 let	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 musicians	det
17	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 let	obj
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 silent	cop
19	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 let	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 understand	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 understand	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Prince	det
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 understand	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 understand	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 understand	advmod
26	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	parataxis
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 saying	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saying	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 saying	aux
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 understand	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert in a quote	past	mother		now		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		supper			tree rules
3	serve	infinitive · passive	supper not said here				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»
4	let	infinitive		the musicians			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Theme
5	is	infinitive	the musicians not said here			silent property	tree rules
6	not understand	present · do-support	the Prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert	present · progressive	Princes = prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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