The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 46

‘It is because,’ he answered, ‘the castle people will not allow me to carry off the Golden Blackbird without giving them the Porcelain Maiden in exchange.’

Who acts: friend, castle people · What happens: be, not allow, carry off, give · To what, where: me, Golden Blackbird, Porcelain Maiden, exchange

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, castle people), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	cop
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 answered	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 because	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 because	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allow	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 allow	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	compound
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 allow	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 allow	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 allow	advmod
16	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 allow	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 carry	mark
19	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allow	xcomp
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 carry	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Blackbird	det
22	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Blackbird	amod
23	Blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carry	obj
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 giving	mark
25	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 carry	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 giving	iobj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Maiden	det
28	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Maiden	compound
29	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 giving	iobj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 exchange	case
31	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 giving	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	friend				answer property	tree rules
2	not allow	future	the castle people		me			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	carry off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the castle people not said here	the Golden Blackbird				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackbird=Theme
4	give	gerund	the castle people not said here		the Porcelain Maiden	exchange		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient maiden=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 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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