The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 58
And without any further delay he begged the queen to consent to their betrothal, for the marriage must take place in his own country.
Who acts: beauty, marriage, eyes · What happens: beg, consent, take, betroth · To what, where: queen, place, own country
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, marriage, eyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 begged | cc |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 delay | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 delay | det |
| 4 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 delay | amod |
| 5 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begged | nsubj |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 consent | mark |
| 11 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 queen | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 betrothal | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 betrothal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 consent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 marriage | det |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | conj |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 country | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 country | amod |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | beauty | the queen | without any further delay | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | consent | to-infinitive | beauty not said here | to eyes's betrothal | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to betrothal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | must | the marriage | place | beauty's own country | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in country=Location | |||
| 4 | betroth | eyes = eye | nom betrothal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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