The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 23

But nothing will prevent children from thinking that I invented the stories, or some ladies from being of the same opinion.

Who acts: nothing, I · What happens: prevent, think, invent, be · To what, where: children, stories, same opinion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 prevent	cc
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 prevent	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 prevent	aux
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prevent	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 thinking	case
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 prevent	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 invented	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 invented	nsubj
10	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stories	det
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 invented	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ladies	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 ladies	cc
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 ladies	det
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prevent	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	22 opinion	case
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 opinion	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 opinion	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 opinion	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 opinion	amod
22	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ladies	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prevent	future	nothing	children		some ladies obl	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer child=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	nothing not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	invent	past	I	the stories			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result
4	is	gerund			the same opinion		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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