The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 131

But she told him she was afraid of his beasts, and he must first allow her to give each of them a stroke with her rod.

Who acts: woman, master · What happens: tell, be, allow, give · To what, where: master, woman, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, master), 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	_	3 told	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 afraid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	cop
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 beasts	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 beasts	nmod:poss
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 afraid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allow	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 allow	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allow	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 allow	aux
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 allow	advmod
16	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 afraid	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allow	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allow	xcomp
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 give	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 each	nmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stroke	det
24	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 rod	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rod	nmod:poss
27	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stroke	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	woman		master		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	woman			of master's beasts; afraid property	tree rules
3	allow	must	master		woman	first property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	master not said here	each			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient stroke=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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