English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 10
And God forbid it should be so,” said Mr. Fox.
Who acts: God · What happens: forbid, be, say · To what, where: gallery, Mr. Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 forbid | cc |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forbid | nsubj |
| 3 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forbid | obj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 so | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 so | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 forbid | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fox | compound |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | infinitive | God | gallery | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | should | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mr. Fox | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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