The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 47

The witch listened to all he said and, much pleased, ended by accepting his offer; but she begged him to return to his ship for a little while as she wished to go some way further into the forest, promising to join him later on.

Who acts: witch, Ring, Signy · What happens: listen, say, accept, beg, return, wish · To what, where: all, offer, Ring, way, forest · 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 (witch, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 said	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pleased	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pleased	punct
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 pleased	advmod
11	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ended	punct
13	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pleased	conj
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 accepting	mark
15	accepting	accept	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ended	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 offer	nmod:poss
17	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 accepting	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 begged	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 begged	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 begged	nsubj
21	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 begged	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 return	mark
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 begged	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 ship	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ship	nmod:poss
27	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 return	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 while	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 while	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 while	amod
31	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 return	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 wished	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wished	nsubj
34	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 return	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wished	xcomp
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl:unmarked
39	further	further	ADV	_	42 forest	advmod
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 forest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 forest	det
42	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 promising	punct
44	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 begged	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 join	mark
46	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 promising	xcomp
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 join	obj
48	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 on	advmod
49	on	on	ADV	_	46 join	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the witch						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Ring		all				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to all=Recipient
3	accept	gerund	Ring not said here	Ring's offer					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	Signy		Ring				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	Signy not said here				while	to Ring's ship result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result
6	wish	past	Signy						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Signy not said here	some way		the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
8	promise speech: promise	gerund	Signy not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	Signy not said here	Ring					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
10	offer		Ring						nom offer «communication transitive»: 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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