The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 49

This so delighted her that she begged the children to stay with her altogether, and the boy answered that he would leave his sisters with her gladly, but that he himself had serious business on hand and must not linger in pursuit of it.

Who acts: woman, boy · What happens: beg, stay, answer, leave, have, not linger · To what, where: children, sisters, serious business, hand, pursuit, lodging · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, boy), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 delighted	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 delighted	advmod
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 begged	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 begged	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stay	obl
14	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	11 stay	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 answered	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 leave	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 leave	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 leave	aux
23	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 answered	ccomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sisters	nmod:poss
25	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leave	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 leave	obl
28	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	23 leave	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	32 he	nmod:unmarked
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 answered	conj
35	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 business	amod
36	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 hand	case
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 linger	cc
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 linger	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 linger	advmod
42	linger	linger	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 had	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 pursuit	case
44	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 linger	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pursuit	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	woman		the children			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here				with woman; altogether property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location
3	answer speech: assert	past	the boy					tree rules
4	leave	would	boy		boy's sisters		with woman; gladly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient with she=Theme
5	have	past	boy	serious business		hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient
6	not linger	must	boy not said here			pursuit of lodging		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location
7	pursue			lodging				nom pursuit «act 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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