The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 56

The prince, however, pleaded so hard to be told, that at last there was nothing to be done but to let him hear.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: plead, tell, do, let, hear · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 last	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 pleaded	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct
6	pleaded	plead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 prince	acl:relcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pleaded	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	11 told	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hard	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 prince	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 last	nsubj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 last	acl:relcl
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 was	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 done	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 done	aux:pass
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 nothing	acl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 done	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	participle		the prince not said here	hard, however property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	do	to-infinitive · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»
4	let	to-infinitive		Prince		tree rules
5	hear	infinitive	Prince not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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