The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 47

The princesses were there too, and they were very friendly with the prince and begged him to get into their carriage so as to talk to them.

Who acts: princesses · What happens: be, beg, get, talk · To what, where: king, carriage, princesses

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princesses	det
2	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 friendly	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 friendly	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 friendly	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 friendly	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 friendly	advmod
11	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 there	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 prince	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friendly	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 friendly	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 begged	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begged	xcomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 carriage	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 carriage	nmod:poss
22	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 talk	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 talk	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	26 talk	mark
26	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 get	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 talk	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princesses			there property	tree rules
2	is	past	princesses = princess			with the prince; friendly property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	princesses = princess not said here	king			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	princesses = princess not said here		princesses's carriage		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination
5	talk	to-infinitive	princesses = princess not said here	princesses = princess			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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