The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 20

We have been in all the rooms of our father’s palace, and have admired the rich and beautiful furniture: why should not we go into the room that our father forbad us to enter?’

Who acts: We, rooms, father · What happens: be, admire, not go, forba, enter · To what, where: rooms, rich furniture, room

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, rooms, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 rooms	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rooms	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 rooms	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 rooms	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rooms	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rooms	det
7	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 palace	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 palace	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rooms	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 admired	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 admired	cc
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 admired	aux
16	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rooms	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 furniture	det
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 furniture	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 beautiful	cc
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rich	conj
21	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 admired	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 go	advmod
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 go	advmod
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
27	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rooms	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 room	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 room	det
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 forbad	obj
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 forbad	nsubj
34	forbad	forba	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 room	acl:relcl
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 forbad	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 enter	mark
37	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 forbad	xcomp
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 rooms	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 rooms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	We		all rooms	of our father's palace	tree rules
2	admire	present · perfect	all rooms not said here	the rich furniture			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer furniture=Stimulus
3	not go	should	we		the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
4	forba	past	our father	the room			tree rules
5	enter	to-infinitive	our father not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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