English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 14

And God forbid it should be so,” said Mr. Fox, and was going to say something else as he rose from his seat, when Lady Mary cried out:

Who acts: God, Lady Mary · What happens: forbid, be, say, go, rise, cry out · To what, where: ring, Mr. Fox, something, seat · 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, Lady Mary), 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	_	16 going	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 going	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	xcomp
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 say	obj
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 something	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 rose	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rose	nsubj
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	advcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 seat	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 seat	nmod:poss
26	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rose	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 cried	advmod
29	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Mary	compound
30	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 cried	nsubj
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 cried	compound:prt
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forbid	infinitive	God	ring			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
4	go in a quote	past · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive		something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	rise in a quote	past	God		God's seat		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location
7	cry out speech: express in a quote	past	Lady Mary				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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