The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 90

The distracted wife begged and implored in vain; her husband persisted in staying in bed, and at last, in despair, she left him and went back to her work.

Who acts: grief · What happens: distract, beg, implore, persist, stay, leave · To what, where: distracted wife, vain, bed, husband

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief), 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 wife	det
2	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 persisted	nsubj:pass
4	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wife	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 implored	cc
6	implored	implore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 begged	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 vain	case
8	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 implored	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 persisted	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 persisted	nsubj
12	persisted	persist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 staying	mark
14	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 persisted	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 bed	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 staying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 last	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 last	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 persisted	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 despair	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 despair	case
23	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 last	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 left	nsubj
26	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 persisted	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 left	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 left	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 work	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 work	nmod:poss
33	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	distract	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	beg speech: request	participle		the distracted wife not said here			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	implore	participle			vain		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	persist	participle · passive		the distracted wife			tree rules
5	stay	gerund			bed		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location
6	leave	past	grief	husband			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	go back	past	grief not said here			to grief's work result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result
8	work		grief				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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