Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 4

They would not let her go out of the house at all; for she was more beautiful than the other two, and they were in dread she might marry before themselves.

Who acts: cooking, Brown · What happens: not let, go out, be, marry · To what, where: Brown, house, dread

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cooking, Brown), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 house	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 beautiful	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 beautiful	case
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beautiful	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beautiful	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 let	parataxis
19	than	than	ADP	_	22 two	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 two	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 two	amod
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 beautiful	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dread	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dread	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dread	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dread	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 dread	case
28	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beautiful	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 marry	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 marry	aux
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dread	acl:relcl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 themselves	case
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 marry	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	cooking	Brown				tree rules
2	go out	infinitive	Brown not said here	the house at all				tree rules
3	is	past	Brown				than the other two; beautiful property	tree rules
4	is	past	cooking		dread			tree rules
5	marry	might	Brown	dread not said here		before cooking		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dread=Patient

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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