The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 49
“Yesterday Masilo beheld Dilah, and ever since he has entreated me to give him back his daughter.”
Who acts: Yesterday, Masilo · What happens: behold, entreat, give back · To what, where: Dilah, Thakane, daughter
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 (Yesterday, Masilo), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
| 2 | Yesterday | Yesterday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 3 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yesterday | flat |
| 4 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Dilah | Dilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entreated | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 entreated | cc |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 entreated | advmod |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 entreated | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 entreated | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 entreated | aux |
| 12 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 beheld | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 entreated | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 entreated | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | back | back | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold in a quote | past | Yesterday | Dilah | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dilah=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | entreat in a quote | present · perfect | Masilo | Thakane | ever | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | give back in a quote | to-infinitive | Masilo not said here | Masilo's daughter | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme |
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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