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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 40

So he begged his father to let him have a ship for the voyage, set sail with a favourable wind, and after a time landed in the country where Signy lived.

Who acts: Ring, Signy · What happens: beg, let, have, land, live · To what, where: father, Ring, ship, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, Signy), 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

advmodnsubjnmod:possobjmarkccompobjxcompdetobjcasedetoblpunctamodnmodcasedetamodnmodpunctcccasedetoblconjcasedetobladvmodnsubjacl:relclpunctrootSoADVhePRONbeggedVERBhisPRONfatherNOUNtoPARTletVERBhimPRONhaveVERBaDETshipNOUNforADPtheDETvoyageNOUN,PUNCTsetADJsailNOUNwithADPaDETfavourableADJwindNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJafterADPaDETtimeNOUNlandedVERBinADPtheDETcountryNOUNwhereADVSignyPROPNlivedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 beggedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 beggednsubj
3beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 fathernmod:poss
5fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing3 beggedobj
6totoPART_7 letmark
7letletVERBVerbForm=Inf3 beggedccomp
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 letobj
9havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf7 letxcomp
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 shipdet
11shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing9 haveobj
12forforADP_14 voyagecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 voyagedet
14voyagevoyageNOUNNumber=Sing9 haveobl
15,,PUNCT_17 sailpunct
16setsetADJDegree=Pos17 sailamod
17sailsailNOUNNumber=Sing14 voyagenmod
18withwithADP_21 windcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 winddet
20favourablefavourableADJDegree=Pos21 windamod
21windwindNOUNNumber=Sing17 sailnmod
22,,PUNCT_27 landedpunct
23andandCCONJ_27 landedcc
24afterafterADP_26 timecase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 timedet
26timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing27 landedobl
27landedlandVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 beggedconj
28ininADP_30 countrycase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 countrydet
30countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing27 landedobl
31wherewhereADVPronType=Rel33 livedadvmod
32SignySignyPROPNNumber=Sing33 livednsubj
33livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 countryacl:relcl
34..PUNCT_3 beggedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1beg speech: requestpastRingRing's fathervn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2let not said to happento-infinitiveRingtree rules
3haveinfinitiveRing not said herea shipfor the voyage set sail with a favourable windvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient
4landparticipleRing not said herethe countrytimevn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in country=Destination
5livepastSignyvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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