The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 93

The youngest boy begged her to let him undertake the search, but she would not hear of it, and told him he must stay at home and take care of his sister.

Who acts: youngest boy, chief, mother · What happens: beg, let, undertake, not hear, tell, stay · To what, where: mother, chief, search, home, care · 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 (youngest boy, chief, mother), 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	3 boy	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 search	det
11	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undertake	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 hear	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 hear	advmod
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hear	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stay	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stay	aux
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	ccomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 home	case
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stay	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 take	cc
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stay	conj
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sister	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sister	nmod:poss
34	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the youngest boy		mother			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	the youngest boy not said here	chief				tree rules
3	undertake	infinitive	chief not said here	the search				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality
4	not hear	would	mother				of search	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	past	the youngest boy not said here		chief			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stay	must	chief			home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
7	take	infinitive	chief not said here	care			of chief's sister	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sister=Initial_Location

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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