The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 71
The King would not believe it, and would not allow any harm to be done her.
Who acts: King · What happens: not believe, not allow, do · To what, where: tree, harm, mother
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 allow | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 allow | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 allow | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 allow | advmod |
| 11 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 harm | det |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allow | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 allow | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | would | the King | tree | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not allow | would | any harm | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive · passive | mother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: she=Eventuality |
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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