The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 236
‘I may not let anyone in, the seven Dwarfs have forbidden me to do so.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not let in, forbid, do · To what, where: anyone, seven Dwarfs
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 (I), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 let | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forbidden | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dwarfs | det |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Dwarfs | nummod |
| 11 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 forbidden | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 forbidden | aux |
| 13 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 let | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 forbidden | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forbidden | xcomp |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in | may | I | anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forbid | present · perfect · passive | the seven Dwarfs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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