The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 71

He was tired and hungry and begged her to let him in and rest, and he stayed a long while, and the girl became his wife.

Who acts: Carrier, girl · What happens: be, beg, let in, rest, stay, become · To what, where: girl, Carrier, wife

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carrier, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hungry	cc
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tired	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begged	cc
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 let	mark
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	10 let	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rest	cc
14	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stayed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stayed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stayed	nsubj
18	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 while	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 while	amod
21	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stayed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stayed	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Carrier				tired property	tree rules
2	be		Carrier not said here					tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	Carrier not said here		girl			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	let in	to-infinitive	Carrier not said here	Carrier				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	rest	infinitive	Carrier not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stay	past	Carrier			while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	become	past	the girl	Carrier's wife				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/71/