The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 98

Her husband came to seek her, and begged her to leave the shed and go to bed, as she must be tired out; but the girl would not stir, neither would she attend to the words of her mother-in-law.

Who acts: husband, wife, girl · What happens: come, seek, beg, leave, go, be · To what, where: wife, shed, bed, mother

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife, girl), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 seek	mark
5	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seek	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 leave	mark
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shed	det
14	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 leave	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tired	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 tired	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tired	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tired	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 tired	cop
24	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 go	advcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 tired	compound:prt
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 stir	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 stir	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stir	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stir	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 stir	advmod
32	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 attend	punct
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 attend	cc:preconj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 attend	aux
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 attend	nsubj
37	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 stir	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 words	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 words	det
40	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 attend	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 mother	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mother	nmod:poss
43	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 words	nmod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 law	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 law	case
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 in	punct
47	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mother	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	wife's husband					tree rules
2	seek	to-infinitive	wife's husband not said here	wife				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	wife's husband not said here		wife			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife's husband not said here	the shed				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shed=Theme
5	go	infinitive	wife's husband not said here			bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
6	is	must	wife				tired property	tree rules
7	not stir	would	the girl					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	attend	would	wife				to the words of wife's mother in law	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
9	word			wife's mother in law				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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