The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 42

The princess then took her father into her confidence, and begged him to advise her what courtesy she might return to one who persisted in making her such presents.

Who acts: princess, courtesy · What happens: take, beg, advise, return, persist, make · To what, where: father, confidence, man, princess, one, such presents

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, courtesy), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 confidence	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 confidence	nmod:poss
9	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begged	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 advise	mark
15	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begged	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 advise	obj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 return	obj
18	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 return	nsubj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 return	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 return	aux
21	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 advise	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 return	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 persisted	nsubj
25	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 making	mark
27	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 persisted	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 presents	nmod:poss
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 presents	amod
30	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 making	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	the princess	princess's father		princess's confidence	then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme into confidence=Destination
2	beg speech: request	past	the princess not said here		man			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	advise speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here		princess			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	return	might	courtesy		one			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme to one=Destination
5	persist	past						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	gerund		princess's such presents				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset present=Product
7	confide		princess					nom confidence «cognition 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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