The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 86

With a great air of mystery he begged permission to speak to the fair Lucia, of whose skill in needlework he had heard so much, as he had a commission to give her.

Who acts: man, permission, commission · What happens: beg, speak, hear, have, give · To what, where: permission, commission, Dame · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (man, permission, commission), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 air	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 air	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 air	amod
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begged	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mystery	case
6	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 air	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begged	nsubj
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begged	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 speak	mark
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begged	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 Lucia	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lucia	det
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Lucia	amod
15	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 speak	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 skill	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 skill	case
18	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	19 skill	nmod:poss
19	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speak	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 needlework	case
21	needlework	needlework	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 skill	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 skill	parataxis
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	24 heard	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 commission	det
32	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 give	mark
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	man	permission		with a great air of mystery	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	permission not said here			to the fair Lucia	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to lucia=Co-Agent
3	hear	past · perfect	man				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	man	a commission			tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive	a commission not said here		Dame		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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