The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 30
‘Then let the bird fly away,’ said the Princess; and she would not on any account allow the Prince to come.
Who acts: bird, Princess, Prince · What happens: let, fly away, say, not allow, come · To what, where: bird, Prince, account · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, Princess, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3041): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 fly | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 allow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 allow | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 allow | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 allow | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 allow | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 account | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 account | det |
| 20 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 allow | obl |
| 21 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 allow | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 allow | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the bird | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly away | infinitive | the bird not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not allow | would | bird | the Prince | any account | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer prince=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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