The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 121
The guards in silver and the footmen in gold would not allow it.
Who acts: guards · What happens: not allow · To what, where: gold
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards), 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 | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 allow | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 silver | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guards | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 footmen | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 footmen | det |
| 7 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 guards | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guards | nmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 allow | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 allow | advmod |
| 12 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 allow | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | would | the guards in silver in gold and the footmen | gold | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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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