The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 3
But Laufer fell at his feet and begged for mercy.
Who acts: Laufer · What happens: fall, beg · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laufer), 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 | _ | 3 fell | cc |
| 2 | Laufer | Laufer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fell | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 mercy | case |
| 10 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Laufer | Laufer's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | Laufer not said here | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic |
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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