The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 84

On the one side were the servants of the chief, and on the other the servants of the chief’s sister, who was sorry for the two youths, and begged that their lives might be spared.

Who acts: servants, sister · What happens: be, beg, spare · To what, where: one side, lives

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 (servants, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 side	nummod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chief	obl
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chief	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 servants	det
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chief	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 chief	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chief	det
10	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 begged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 begged	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 begged	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 servants	det
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 other	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 sister	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 chief	det
20	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sister	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 chief	case
22	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 servants	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sorry	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sorry	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sorry	cop
26	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sister	amod
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 youths	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 youths	det
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 youths	nummod
30	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sorry	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 begged	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 begged	cc
33	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chief	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 spared	mark
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lives	nmod:poss
36	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 spared	nsubj:pass
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 spared	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 spared	aux:pass
39	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 begged	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 chief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the servants		the one side	of the chief	tree rules
2	is	past	the chief's sister			for the two youths; sorry property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	the servants not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	spare	might · passive		servants's lives			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset

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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