The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 51

Cinderlad’s two brothers were there too, but they would not hear of letting him go with them, for he was so dirty and black with sleeping and grubbing among the ashes that they said everyone would laugh at them if they were seen in the company of such an oaf.

Who acts: two brothers, princes, brother, everyone · What happens: be, not hear, let, go, grub, say · To what, where: brother, ashes, princes, company · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, princes, brother, everyone), 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	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brothers	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Cinderlad	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 there	conj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 letting	mark
15	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hear	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 letting	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 letting	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dirty	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 dirty	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dirty	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dirty	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 dirty	advmod
25	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hear	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 black	cc
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dirty	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 sleeping	case
29	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dirty	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 grubbing	cc
31	grubbing	grub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 dirty	conj
32	among	among	ADP	_	34 ashes	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ashes	det
34	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grubbing	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 said	obj
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ashes	acl:relcl
38	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	40 laugh	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 laugh	aux
40	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 said	ccomp
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 laugh	obl
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 seen	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 seen	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 seen	aux:pass
46	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 laugh	advcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 company	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 company	det
49	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seen	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 oaf	case
51	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	53 oaf	det:predet
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 oaf	det
53	oaf	oaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 company	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cinderlad's two brothers			there property	tree rules
2	not hear	would	princes = prince				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	let	gerund	princes = prince not said here	brother			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	brother not said here			with princes = prince	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
5	is	past	brother			with sleeping; dirty property	tree rules
6	be		brother not said here				tree rules
7	grub	gerund	brother not said here			among the ashes	tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	princes = prince	the ashes			tree rules
9	laugh	would	everyone			at princes = prince	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	see a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		princes = prince	the company of such oaf		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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