The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 109

At the gates he left them, though his wife besought him to allow her to enter.

Who acts: procession, wife · What happens: leave, beseech, allow, enter · To what, where: gates, procession, wife

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 gates	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gates	det
3	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 besought	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 besought	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 besought	nsubj
11	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 besought	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 allow	mark
14	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 besought	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allow	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 enter	mark
17	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allow	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	leave	past	procession	gates = gate		the gates	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at gate=Location
2	beseech	past	procession's wife	procession			tree rules
3	allow	to-infinitive	procession's wife not said here		wife		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	procession's wife not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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