The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 48
But they would suffer no one to come near them, and the princess was commanded to perform this service also.
Who acts: mares · What happens: suffer, come, command, perform · To what, where: one, princess, service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mares), 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 suffer | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suffer | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 suffer | aux |
| 4 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffer | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 one | acl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 commanded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 commanded | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commanded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 commanded | aux:pass |
| 16 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 suffer | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 perform | mark |
| 18 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 commanded | xcomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 service | det |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 perform | obj |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 perform | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | would | mares = mare | no one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | mares = mare not said here | no one not said here | near mares = mare | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location | |||
| 3 | command | past · passive | the princess | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | perform not said to happen | to-infinitive | this service | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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 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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