More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 149
Topcliffe fair was coming on, and Jack begged that he might be allowed to go there.
Who acts: Topcliffe fair, Jack · What happens: come on, beg, allow, go · To what, where: Jack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Topcliffe fair, Jack), 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 | Topcliffe | Topcliffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fair | compound |
| 2 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 coming | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begged | cc |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 allowed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 allowed | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowed | aux:pass |
| 14 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 begged | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowed | xcomp |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past · progressive | Topcliffe fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Jack | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow | might · passive | Jack | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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