More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 123
The Childe sought his father, and begged his forgiveness for the curse he had brought on the Hall.
Who acts: Childe · What happens: seek, beg, bring · To what, where: father, forgiveness, curse, Hall
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Childe | det |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 forgiveness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 curse | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 curse | det |
| 13 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 curse | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Hall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Hall | det |
| 19 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | the Childe | Childe's father | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the Childe not said here | Childe's forgiveness | for the curse | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient for curse=Topic | |||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect | Childe | the curse not said here | the Hall | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curse=Theme on hall=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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