The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 39
She has my gracious permission to appear, and if she does not, the whole Court shall be trampled under foot after supper!’
Who acts: Majesty, my · What happens: have, appear, not do, trample, permit · To what, where: gracious permission, whole Court, foot
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, my), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 permission | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 permission | amod |
| 5 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 appear | mark |
| 7 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 permission | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trampled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trampled | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 does | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 does | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 trampled | advcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 does | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 does | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Court | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Court | amod |
| 17 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trampled | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 trampled | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trampled | aux:pass |
| 20 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 has | conj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trampled | obl |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 supper | case |
| 24 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trampled | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Majesty | my gracious permission | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient | ||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | Majesty not said here | my gracious permission not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | Majesty | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | trample | shall · passive | the whole Court | foot | after supper | tree rules | |||
| 5 | permit | my | nom permission «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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