The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 90
Still the old woman pleaded that she could not live without her son, and was nearly as terrified at the idea of his becoming a soldier as she was at the thought of his being put in prison.
Who acts: old woman, discipline, story, thought · What happens: plead, not live, be, become, put · To what, where: idea, soldier, thought, story, prison · Speech: someone speaks here
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, discipline, story, thought), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 pleaded | 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 | 5 pleaded | nsubj |
| 5 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 live | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 live | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 live | advmod |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleaded | ccomp |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 terrified | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 terrified | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 terrified | cop |
| 17 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 19 terrified | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 terrified | advmod |
| 19 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleaded | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 idea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 idea | det |
| 22 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 terrified | obl |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 becoming | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 becoming | nsubj |
| 25 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 idea | acl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 soldier | det |
| 27 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 becoming | xcomp |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 thought | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 thought | cop |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 thought | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 thought | det |
| 33 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 becoming | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 put | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 put | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 put | aux:pass |
| 37 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 thought | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 prison | case |
| 39 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 put | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plead speech: request | past | the old woman | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not live | could | discipline | without discipline's son | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the old woman not said here | the idea | nearly, terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | become | gerund | story | a soldier | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient idea=Result | ||||
| 5 | is | past | discipline | the thought | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put | gerund · passive | the thought not said here | story | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in prison=Destination |
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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