The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 96
This sounded so reasonable and natural that it did not enter the Prince’s head to refuse her request.
Who acts: This, condition, girl · What happens: sound, not enter, refuse, request · To what, where: head, request
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, condition, girl), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sounded | nsubj |
| 2 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 reasonable | advmod |
| 4 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sounded | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 natural | cc |
| 6 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reasonable | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 enter | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 enter | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enter | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 enter | advmod |
| 11 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 natural | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enter | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 refuse | mark |
| 17 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 enter | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 request | nmod:poss |
| 19 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 refuse | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | This | reasonable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not enter | past · do-support | condition | the Prince's head | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | refuse | to-infinitive | condition not said here | girl's request | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 4 | request | girl | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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