More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 99

A second, and then a third time, the old nurse begged him to let the girl go with him, but she was answered only by black looks and fierce words, till she was driven from the room by the jeering servants, with blows and mocking words.

Who acts: second, girl, black looks, jeering servants · What happens: beg, let, go, answer, drive, mock · To what, where: king, girl, horse, room, words

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 (second, girl, black looks, jeering servants), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 second	det
2	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 begged	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nurse	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nurse	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nurse	amod
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	conj
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girl	det
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 answered	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answered	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 answered	aux:pass
26	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 begged	parataxis
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 looks	advmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 looks	case
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looks	amod
30	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 answered	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 words	cc
32	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 words	amod
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 looks	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 driven	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 driven	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 driven	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 driven	aux:pass
38	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 answered	parataxis
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 room	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 room	det
41	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 driven	obl
42	by	by	ADP	_	45 servants	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 servants	det
44	jeering	jeering	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 servants	compound
45	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 driven	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 blows	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 blows	case
48	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 servants	conj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 mocking	cc
50	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 driven	conj
51	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 mocking	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	a second		king		then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	a second not said here	the girl					tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the girl not said here					with king	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
4	answer speech: assert	past · passive	black looks and fierce words	horse					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
5	drive	past · passive	the jeering servants and blows	horse		the room			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from room=Trajectory
6	mock	gerund	the jeering servants and blows not said here	words					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

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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