The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 23
But they said that the Queen had expressly forbidden them to supply her with any, and they dared not disobey.
Who acts: embroiderers, Queen · What happens: say, forbid, supply, disobey · To what, where: embroiderers, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (embroiderers, Queen), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 forbidden | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 forbidden | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forbidden | aux |
| 8 | expressly | expressly | ADV | _ | 9 forbidden | advmod |
| 9 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forbidden | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 supply | mark |
| 12 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forbidden | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 supply | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 any | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 supply | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 disobey | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 disobey | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disobey | nsubj |
| 19 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 disobey | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 dared | advmod |
| 21 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forbidden | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | embroiderers = embroiderer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | forbid | past · perfect | the Queen | embroiderers = embroiderer | expressly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | supply | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Queen | with any | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with any=Theme | |||
| 4 | disobey | past | embroiderers = embroiderer | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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