The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 87

‘It is prophesied that she will be very unlucky in her husband, and so no one is allowed to see her except when the sultan and sultana are by.’

Who acts: daughter, one · What happens: prophesy, be, allow, see · To what, where: sultan, one, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, one), 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	_	4 prophesied	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prophesied	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prophesied	aux:pass
4	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 unlucky	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 unlucky	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 unlucky	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 unlucky	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 unlucky	advmod
10	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prophesied	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 husband	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unlucky	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 allowed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 allowed	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 allowed	advmod
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 allowed	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 allowed	aux:pass
20	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 prophesied	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 allowed	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	except	except	ADP	_	31 by	case
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 by	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sultan	det
27	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 by	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sultana	cc
29	sultana	sultana	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sultan	conj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 by	cop
31	by	by	ADP	_	22 see	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prophesied	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 prophesied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prophesy	present · passive		sultan		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	future	daughter		in daughter's husband; unlucky property	tree rules
3	allow	present · passive		no one		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here	daughter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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