The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 50

“I have quarrelled with my eldest sister, and as I do not want to fight any more, I have come to beg you to allow me to sleep with you.”

Who acts: Maria · What happens: quarrell, not want, fight, come, beg, allow · To what, where: you, Maria

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 quarrelled	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 quarrelled	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quarrelled	aux
4	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 sister	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 sister	amod
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quarrelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 want	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 want	advmod
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fight	mark
17	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	xcomp
18	any	any	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 fight	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 quarrelled	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 beg	mark
25	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 beg	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 allow	mark
28	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 beg	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 allow	iobj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sleep	mark
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 allow	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 sleep	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quarrelled	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 quarrelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	quarrell in a quote	present · perfect	Maria		with my eldest sister	tree rules
2	not want in a quote	present · do-support	Maria			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fight not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Maria not said here			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	present · perfect	Maria			tree rules
5	beg speech: request in a quote	to-infinitive	Maria not said here	you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	allow in a quote	to-infinitive	Maria not said here	Maria		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	sleep not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Maria not said here		with you	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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