More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 50

So the sower began to thrash him, and charged him to repeat:

Who acts: sower · What happens: begin, thrash, charge, repeat · To what, where: sower

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 (sower), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sower	det
3	sower	sower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 thrash	mark
6	thrash	thrash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thrash	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 charged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 charged	cc
10	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 charged	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 repeat	mark
13	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 charged	xcomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the sower		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	thrash	to-infinitive	the sower not said here	sower	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	charge	past	the sower not said here	sower	tree rules
4	repeat	to-infinitive	the sower not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «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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