The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 54
In his turn he fell on his knees to beg for mercy, but it was too late.
Who acts: noise, mercy · What happens: fall, beg, be · To what, where: turn
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, mercy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 turn | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nmod:poss |
| 3 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 knees | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knees | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 beg | mark |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fell | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mercy | case |
| 12 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beg | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 late | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 late | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 late | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 late | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 late | advmod |
| 18 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | noise | noise's turn | on noise's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in turn=Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | noise not said here | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mercy | late property | tree rules |
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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