The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 176

‘Or in a blue moon!’ murmured the Princess; but the Kinglet did not hear her and let her take his purse.

Who acts: blue moon, Kinglet, Princess · What happens: murmur, not hear, let, take · To what, where: Princess, purse

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue moon, Kinglet, Princess), 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	_	6 moon	punct
2	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 moon	cc
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 moon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moon	det
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moon	amod
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 murmured	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 moon	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 moon	punct
9	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 murmured	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 hear	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 hear	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Kinglet	det
15	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hear	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hear	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hear	advmod
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 murmured	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hear	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hear	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 purse	nmod:poss
25	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	murmur speech: other	past	a blue moon	the Princess	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	not hear	past · do-support	the Kinglet	Princess	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	let	infinitive	the Kinglet not said here	Princess	tree rules
4	take	infinitive	Princess not said here	Kinglet's purse	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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