Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 9

Then she began to beg everybody’s pardon.

Who acts: hag, everybody · What happens: begin, beg, pardon · To what, where: pardon

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hag, everybody), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 beg	mark
5	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 pardon	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 everybody	case
8	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beg	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	hag		then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	hag not said here	everybody's pardon		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
3	pardon		everybody			nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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