The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 46

Then Masilo implored her to give the child back to him; but she would not listen, and only answered: “If I were to give her back you would only obey the laws of your country and take her to your father, the ogre, and she would be eaten.”

Who acts: Masilo, Thakane, I, you · What happens: implore, give, not listen, answer, give back, obey · To what, where: Thakane, child, laws, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, Thakane, I, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 implored	advmod
2	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 implored	nsubj
3	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 implored	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 implored	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	iobj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 back	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 listen	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 listen	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 listen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 listen	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 listen	advmod
17	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 implored	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 answered	cc
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 answered	advmod
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 implored	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
24	If	if	SCONJ	_	28 give	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 give	aux
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 answered	ccomp
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	back	back	ADP	_	28 give	compound:prt
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 obey	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 obey	aux
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 obey	advmod
34	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 give	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 laws	det
36	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 obey	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 country	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 country	nmod:poss
39	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laws	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 take	cc
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 obey	conj
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 take	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 father	case
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 father	nmod:poss
45	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 ogre	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ogre	det
48	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 father	appos
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 eaten	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 eaten	cc
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 eaten	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 eaten	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 eaten	aux:pass
54	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 implored	parataxis
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 eaten	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	54 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	implore	past	Masilo	Thakane		then	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	to-infinitive	Masilo not said here		the child		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	not listen	would	Thakane				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past					tree rules
5	give back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I		Thakane		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	obey in a quote	would	you	the laws of your country			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
7	take in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Thakane	your father		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to father=Destination
8	eat in a quote	would · passive		Thakane			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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