The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 60

But when they tried to stop her, and represented that her high rank made it perfectly impossible that she should do any such thing, she would not listen, and ordered them to be silent.

Who acts: women, high rank, water · What happens: try, stop, represent, make, do, not listen · To what, where: water, talk, such thing, women

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (women, high rank, water), 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	_	33 ordered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tried	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ordered	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 represented	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 represented	cc
10	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 rank	nmod:poss
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rank	amod
14	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 represented	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	18 impossible	advmod
18	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 made	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 impossible	ccomp
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 thing	det
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 listen	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 listen	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 listen	advmod
30	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ordered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ordered	cc
33	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ordered	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 silent	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 silent	cop
37	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ordered	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	women = woman				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here	water			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality
3	represent	past	women = woman not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	make	past	water's high rank	talk		impossible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	do	should	water	any such thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
6	not listen	would	water				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	order	past			women = woman		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	is not said to happen	to-infinitive				silent property	tree rules

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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