The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 147
‘I will not hear of her being made to marry the wicked King’s son,’ she said.
Who acts: I, Princess · What happens: not hear, make, marry, say · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Princess), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hear | advmod |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 made | nmod:poss |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hear | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | future | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | the wicked King's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 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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