English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 23

The woman was ashamed to let him hear what her daughter had been doing, so she sang, instead of that:

Who acts: woman, king, daughter · What happens: be, let, hear, do, sing · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, king, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ashamed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ashamed	cop
4	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ashamed	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 doing	obj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doing	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 doing	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 doing	aux
14	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 hear	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 sang	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ashamed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	22 that	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 sang	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the woman		ashamed property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	king		tree rules
3	hear	infinitive	king not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	past · perfect · progressive	woman's daughter			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	past	woman		instead that	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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