More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 103

I can master it, and I won't go"; and for all her begging and praying he would stop.

Who acts: I, lad · What happens: master, not go, pray, stop · To what, where: good

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lad), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 master	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 master	aux
3	master	master	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 master	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 master	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stop	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stop	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 begging	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 begging	det:predet
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 begging	nmod:poss
17	begging	begging	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stop	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 praying	cc
19	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 begging	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stop	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	aux
22	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 master	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 master	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	master	can	I	good		tree rules
2	not go	future	I			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pray in a quote	gerund	lad not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	stop in a quote	would	lad		for daughter's begging	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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