The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 91

The royal servants answered that they could not let such a poor beggar-woman go in to their royal mistress.

Who acts: royal servants, servants, poor beggar woman · What happens: answer, not let, go · To what, where: poor beggar woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal servants, servants, poor beggar 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servants	det
2	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servants	amod
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 let	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 let	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 woman	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
13	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woman	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 beggar	punct
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 mistress	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mistress	nmod:poss
20	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mistress	amod
21	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 in	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the royal servants		tree rules
2	not let	could	servants = servant	such poor beggar woman	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	such poor beggar woman not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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