The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 36
After a short time the man declared himself beaten, and begged leave to go with them; so they all three travelled together.
Who acts: man, stones · What happens: declare, beat, beg, leave, go, travel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stones), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 declared | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 declared | nsubj |
| 7 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 beaten | nsubj |
| 9 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 declared | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begged | cc |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 declared | conj |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begged | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 leave | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 travelled | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 travelled | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 travelled | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 three | det |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 they | nmod |
| 23 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 declared | conj |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 travelled | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the man | time | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | participle | man | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the man not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | with stones = stone | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | travel | past | stones = stone | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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