The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 112

He implored her not to hurt him, but to let him stay there for the rest of the night, to which she consented, on condition that he should spend the next day in doing any task which she might choose to set him.

Who acts: beggar, voice, task · What happens: implore, not hurt, let, stay, consent, spend · To what, where: voice, beggar, condition, task

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, voice, task), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 implored	nsubj
2	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 implored	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hurt	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hurt	mark
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 implored	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurt	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 let	mark
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 implored	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stay	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 rest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stay	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rest	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 consented	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 consented	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 consented	nsubj
25	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 condition	punct
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 condition	case
28	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 consented	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 spend	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spend	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 spend	aux
32	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 condition	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
34	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 day	amod
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spend	obj
36	in	in	SCONJ	_	37 doing	mark
37	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 spend	advcl
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 task	det
39	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 doing	obj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 choose	nsubj
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 choose	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 choose	aux
43	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 task	acl:relcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 set	mark
45	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 choose	xcomp
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 set	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	implore	past	beggar		voice				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	not hurt	to-infinitive	beggar not said here	beggar					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
3	let	to-infinitive	beggar not said here	beggar					tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	beggar not said here			there		for the rest of the night	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	consent	past	voice			condition			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme
6	spend	should	beggar	condition not said here			day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Asset
7	do	gerund	beggar not said here	any task					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
8	choose	might	any task						tree rules
9	set	to-infinitive	any task not said here	beggar					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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