The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 216
‘But surely you are not forbidden to look out?’ said the old woman, and she held up the poisonous comb for her to see.
Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: not forbid, look out, say, hold up, see · To what, where: you, poisonous comb · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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 | _ | 7 forbidden | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 forbidden | cc |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 7 forbidden | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 forbidden | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 forbidden | advmod |
| 7 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forbidden | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 look | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbidden | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbidden | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 held | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | nsubj |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 held | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 comb | det |
| 23 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 comb | amod |
| 24 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obj |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 comb | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forbid | present · passive | you | surely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look out | to-infinitive | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hold up | past | woman | the poisonous comb | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot comb=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | woman | the poisonous comb not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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