The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 66
But the King would not allow her to do anything so wrong, and he comforted her in all possible ways.
Who acts: King · What happens: not allow, do, comfort · To what, where: Princess, anything, possible ways
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 (King), 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 allow | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 allow | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 allow | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 allow | advmod |
| 6 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 allow | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allow | xcomp |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 wrong | advmod |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 comforted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 comforted | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 comforted | nsubj |
| 16 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 allow | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 comforted | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 ways | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 ways | det |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ways | amod |
| 21 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 comforted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | would | the King | Princess | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | comfort | past | King | Princess | all possible ways | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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