The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 43
He went to his son and begged that he would humour his mother, who had set her heart on his making a kaftan.
Who acts: king · What happens: go, beg, humour, set, make · To what, where: mother, kaftan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 son | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 begged | cc |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 humour | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 humour | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 humour | aux |
| 11 | humour | humour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 humour | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 set | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mother | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obj |
| 20 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 making | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 making | nsubj |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 set | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 kaftan | det |
| 24 | kaftan | kaftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 making | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | king | to king's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | king not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | humour | would | king | king's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | past · perfect · passive | king's mother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | king | a kaftan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kaftan=Product |
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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