The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 35
For at that time no peasant could marry without the leave of his master.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: marry
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 peasant | det |
| 6 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | aux |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 leave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leave | det |
| 11 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | could | no peasant | time | without the leave of Burchard's master | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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