The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 85

The fairies wept and begged him to stay, but he would not listen, and at last the eldest, who was his wife, said to him: “If you really will abandon us, take this lock of my hair with you; you will find it useful in time of need.”

Who acts: fairies, longing · What happens: weep, beg, stay, not listen, be, say · To what, where: longing, wife, us, lock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, longing), 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 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 begged	cc
5	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 listen	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 listen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 listen	advmod
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stay	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eldest	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eldest	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eldest	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eldest	det
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wept	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wife	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 wife	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wife	cop
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eldest	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 abandon	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 abandon	punct
32	If	if	SCONJ	_	36 abandon	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 abandon	nsubj
34	really	really	ADV	_	36 abandon	advmod
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 abandon	aux
36	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	conj
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 abandon	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
39	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 abandon	conj
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 lock	det
41	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 hair	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hair	nmod:poss
44	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lock	nmod
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 take	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 find	punct
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 find	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 find	aux
50	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wept	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 find	obj
52	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 find	xcomp
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 time	case
54	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 find	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 need	case
56	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 time	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the fairies					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	the fairies not said here		longing			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not listen	would	longing					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		longing's wife				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past			longing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	abandon a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	longing	us				vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme we=Source
8	take in a quote	infinitive	longing not said here	this lock of my hair			with longing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
9	find in a quote	future	longing	lock		time	useful property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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