English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 27

Now Dame Goody did not think it her business to interfere, but she thought she ought not to let so good a customer pass without speaking.

Who acts: Dame, good customer pass · What happens: not think, interfere, think, not let, speak · To what, where: notice, good customer pass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, good customer pass), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 think	advmod
2	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
3	Goody	Goody	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dame	flat
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 business	nmod:poss
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 interfere	mark
11	interfere	interfere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 business	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	advcl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	nsubj
17	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 let	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 let	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 let	mark
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 good	advmod
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pass	amod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pass	det
24	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pass	compound
25	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obj
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 speaking	mark
27	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 pass	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	Dame	notice	now	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme business=Attribute
2	interfere	to-infinitive	Dame not said here			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Dame			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not let	ought	Dame	a good customer pass		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme
5	speak speech: other	gerund	a good customer pass not said here			vn talk-37.5 «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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