The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 52
As they drove home they begged the prince to join them, but he would not come, and galloped off with his hussars.
Who acts: princes, king · What happens: drive, beg, join, not come, gallop off · To what, where: prince, princes
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 (princes, king), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drove | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 drove | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | nsubj |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 join | mark |
| 10 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begged | xcomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 join | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begged | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 galloped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 galloped | cc |
| 20 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 galloped | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hussars | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hussars | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hussars | hussar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 galloped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | princes = prince | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | princes = prince | the prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | princes = prince | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not come | would | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | gallop off | past | princes = prince not said here | with king's hussars | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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