The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 71

But when I begged her to marry me, she told me sadly that her mother would scorn a penniless wooer, and implored me to go away at once, lest trouble should fall upon her.

Who acts: I, maiden, mother, trouble · What happens: beg, marry, tell, scorn, implore, go away · To what, where: maiden, me, penniless wooer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, maiden, mother, trouble), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 begged	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 marry	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	11 told	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 scorn	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scorn	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 scorn	aux
18	scorn	scorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wooer	det
20	penniless	penniless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wooer	amod
21	wooer	wooer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scorn	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 implored	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 implored	cc
24	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 implored	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 implored	xcomp
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 go	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fall	punct
32	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	35 fall	mark
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fall	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fall	aux
35	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	parataxis
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fall	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	I		maiden		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	maiden		me	sadly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	scorn	would	maiden's mother	a penniless wooer			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wooer=Theme
5	implore	past	maiden not said here	me			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go away	to-infinitive	maiden not said here			away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
7	fall	should	trouble			upon maiden	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon she=Location

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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