The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 76
No one except the King may go in or out, for it is prophesied that she will marry a common soldier, and the King cannot submit to that.’
Who acts: one, Witch, King · What happens: go, prophesy, marry, not submit · To what, where: castle, common soldier
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Witch, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 3 | except | except | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 out | cc |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 in | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prophesied | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 prophesied | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prophesied | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 prophesied | aux:pass |
| 15 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 go | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 marry | aux |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prophesied | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 soldier | det |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 soldier | amod |
| 22 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marry | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 submit | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 submit | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 submit | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 submit | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 submit | advmod |
| 29 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 that | case |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 submit | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | may | no one except the King | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | prophesy | present · passive | castle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | future | Witch | a common soldier | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not submit | can | the King | to that | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to that=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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