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More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 97

And when the old nurse heard her crying she went to the Lord of the Palace, and begged him to take his granddaughter with him to the King's ball.

Who acts: old nurse, horse · What happens: hear, cry, go, beg, take · To what, where: horse, lord, granddaughter, ball · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old nurse, horse), 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

ccadvmoddetamodnsubjadvclobjccompnsubjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccconjobjmarkxcompnmod:possobjcaseoblcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootAndCCONJwhenADVtheDEToldADJnurseNOUNheardVERBherPRONcryingVERBshePRONwentVERBtoADPtheDETLordPROPNofADPtheDETPalacePROPN,PUNCTandCCONJbeggedVERBhimPRONtoPARTtakeVERBhisPRONgranddaughterNOUNwithADPhimPRONtoADPtheDETKingPROPN'sPARTballNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_10 wentcc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int6 heardadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 nursedet
4oldoldADJDegree=Pos5 nurseamod
5nursenurseNOUNNumber=Sing6 heardnsubj
6heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 wentadvcl
7hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 cryingobj
8cryingcryVERBVerbForm=Ger6 heardccomp
9sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 wentnsubj
10wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11totoADP_13 Lordcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Lorddet
13LordLordPROPNNumber=Sing10 wentobl
14ofofADP_16 Palacecase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Palacedet
16PalacePalacePROPNNumber=Sing13 Lordnmod
17,,PUNCT_19 beggedpunct
18andandCCONJ_19 beggedcc
19beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 wentconj
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 beggedobj
21totoPART_22 takemark
22taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf19 beggedxcomp
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 granddaughternmod:poss
24granddaughtergranddaughterNOUNNumber=Sing22 takeobj
25withwithADP_26 himcase
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 takeobl
27totoADP_31 ballcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Kingdet
29KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing31 ballnmod:poss
30's'sPART_29 Kingcase
31ballballNOUNNumber=Sing22 takeobl
32..PUNCT_10 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastthe old nursevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2cry speech: expressgerundhorsevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3gopasthorseto the Lord of the Palacevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lord=Initial_Location
4beg speech: requestpasthorse not said herelordvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5take not said to happento-infinitivehorse not said herelord's granddaughterthe King's ballwith lordvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent granddaughter=Theme to ball=Destination

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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