More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 76

Then he begged for pen and ink, which she brought him, but he was not allowed out, and holes were bored that he might breathe.

Who acts: hole, wife, holes · What happens: beg, bring, not allow out, be, breathe · To what, where: pen, hole

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, wife, holes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 begged	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 pen	case
5	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ink	cc
7	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pen	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 brought	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	nsubj
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pen	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 allowed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 allowed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 allowed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 allowed	aux:pass
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 allowed	advmod
18	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 begged	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 allowed	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bored	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bored	cc
22	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bored	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bored	cop
24	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 begged	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 breathe	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 breathe	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 breathe	aux
28	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bored	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	hole		then	for pen and ink	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for pen=Topic
2	bring	past	wife	pen and ink			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme he=Destination
3	not allow out	past · passive		hole			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	is	past	holes			bored property	tree rules
5	breathe	might	hole				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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