The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 82

Then the old woman, in her fright and distress, confessed the whole story of how she found the baby, and how she rescued and brought him up, and ended by beseeching the king for mercy.

Who acts: old woman, mother · What happens: confess, find, rescue, bring up, end, beseech · To what, where: whole story, baby, king

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, mother), 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	12 confessed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confessed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fright	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fright	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fright	nmod:poss
8	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 distress	cc
10	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fright	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct
12	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 story	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 story	amod
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confessed	obj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 found	mark
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 found	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 story	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 baby	det
21	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rescued	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rescued	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 rescued	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rescued	nsubj
26	rescued	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 confessed	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brought	cc
28	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rescued	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brought	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 brought	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ended	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ended	cc
33	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 confessed	conj
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 beseeching	mark
35	beseeching	beseech	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 ended	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beseeching	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 mercy	case
39	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beseeching	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	confess	past	the old woman	the whole story	then		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic
2	find	past	mother	the baby			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic
3	rescue	past	mother				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bring up	past	mother not said here	baby			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	end	past	the old woman not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	beseech	gerund	the old woman not said here	the king		for mercy	tree rules
7	fright		mother				nom fright «feeling 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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