The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 94

But though he was very much offended he did not let the girl see it, and begged and, prayed her so hard to marry him that, at last, she consented, very unwillingly.

Who acts: camp, girl · What happens: be, not let, see, beg, pray, marry · To what, where: girl, head, camp

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camp, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 offended	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 offended	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offended	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 offended	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 offended	advmod
7	offended	offend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 let	advmod
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 offended	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begged	cc
18	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 offended	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 prayed	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prayed	punct
21	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 begged	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 prayed	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 hard	advmod
24	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 prayed	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 marry	mark
26	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 prayed	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 marry	obj
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 him	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 last	punct
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 marry	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 consented	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 consented	nsubj
34	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 offended	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 unwillingly	punct
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 unwillingly	advmod
37	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	34 consented	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 offended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	camp		offend property	tree rules
2	not let	past · do-support	camp	the girl		tree rules
3	see	infinitive	the girl not said here	head		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	beg speech: request	participle				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	pray	past		girl	hard property	tree rules
6	marry	to-infinitive		camp		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	consent	past	girl		unwillingly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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