The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 40

But the servant implored the prince to have nothing to do with them, and never gave him any peace till he had obtained leave to destroy the robes.

Who acts: servant · What happens: implore, have, do, not give, obtain, destroy · To what, where: prince, nothing, peace, servant, leave, robes

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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	_	4 implored	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 implored	nsubj
4	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 implored	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 implored	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nothing	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 gave	advmod
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 implored	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 peace	det
20	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 obtained	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 obtained	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obtained	aux
24	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 gave	advcl
25	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 obtained	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 destroy	mark
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 obtained	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 robes	det
29	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 destroy	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	implore	past	the servant		the prince		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
2	have	to-infinitive	the servant not said here	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	the servant not said here	nothing not said here		with prince	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not give	past	the servant not said here	any peace	servant		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient peace=Theme
5	obtain	past · perfect	servant	leave			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
6	destroy	to-infinitive	servant not said here	the robes			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient

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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