The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 29

And after they had given her some supper they begged her to tell them all she had done.

Who acts: father, ride · What happens: give, beg, tell, do · To what, where: supper, ride, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, ride), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 given	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 given	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 begged	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 supper	nmod:poss
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 supper	det
8	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	nsubj
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 them	nmod:unmarked
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 tell	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	father	ride's supper		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	father		ride	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here		father	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	past · perfect	ride			vn act-114-1 «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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