The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 67

Only, he begged the youngest sister to let him keep the little gold cap which, like the others, she wore on her head; and then he helped them, each in her turn, into the basket.

Who acts: accident, sister · What happens: beg, let, keep, wear, help · To what, where: youngest sister, accident, little gold cap, others, head, asses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accident, sister), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 begged	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Only	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cap	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cap	amod
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cap	compound
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 others	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 others	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 others	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 others	det
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cap	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wore	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wore	nsubj
23	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 others	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wore	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 helped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 helped	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 helped	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 helped	nsubj
31	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 helped	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 each	punct
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 helped	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 turn	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 turn	nmod:poss
37	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 each	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 basket	punct
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 basket	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 basket	det
41	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 helped	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	accident		the youngest sister				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		accident					tree rules
3	keep	infinitive	accident not said here	the little gold cap				like the others	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme
4	wear	past	sister	the others not said here		sister's head			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent other=Source
5	help	past	accident	asses = ass		the basket	then		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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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