The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 53

‘Heaven forbid!’ said the lady-in-waiting.

Who acts: Heaven · What happens: forbid, say · To what, where: lady · 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 (Heaven), 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	_	3 forbid	punct
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forbid	nsubj
3	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 forbid	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 forbid	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 waiting	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 waiting	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lady	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	infinitive	Heaven						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	say speech: assert	past		the lady and waiting					tree rules

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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