The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 42

But the emperor heard of it, and forbade the trees to be touched, saying, ‘Let them alone; I like to see them there!

Who acts: emperor, I · What happens: hear, forbid, touch, say, let, like · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, 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 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forbade	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 forbade	cc
9	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forbade	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 touched	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 touched	aux:pass
14	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 forbade	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 touched	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
19	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saying	ccomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 Let	obj
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 Let	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
24	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 like	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 see	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the emperor			of place	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	forbid	past	the emperor not said here	the trees			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer tree=Theme
3	touch	to-infinitive · passive	the emperor not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the emperor not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let	infinitive		trees = tree		alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	like	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	trees = tree	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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