The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 98

He then bethought him of the king's favourite, and went whining to the palace to beg that his brother, whom he had so ill-used, would give him his protection, and find him a place.

Who acts: husband · What happens: bethink, go, whine, beg, use, give · To what, where: king, palace, brother, protection, husband

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	3 bethought	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bethought	advmod
3	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bethought	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 favourite	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 favourite	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bethought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bethought	parataxis
13	whining	whine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 went	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whining	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 beg	mark
18	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 whining	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 used	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 used	nsubj:pass
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 had	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 used	aux
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 used	advmod
27	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 used	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 ill	punct
29	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 beg	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 protection	nmod:poss
35	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 find	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 find	cc
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 give	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 find	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 place	det
41	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 find	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	husband	king		then	of the king's favourite	tree rules
2	go	past						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	whine	gerund			the palace			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to palace=Recipient
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	use	past · perfect · passive		husband's brother				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	give	would		husband's protection	husband			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient protection=Theme
7	find	infinitive		husband				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme place=Attribute
8	protect		husband					nom protection «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: «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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