The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 89

This being settled they both made ready for the race, and Ball-Carrier silently begged the good spirits to help him, and not to let him fall into the hands of this wicked witch.

Who acts: miles, Ball Carrier, Carrier · What happens: settle, make, beg, help, not let, fall · To what, where: This, good spirits, Carrier, hands

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 (miles, Ball Carrier, Carrier), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 settled	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 settled	aux:pass
3	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 settled	ccomp
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 race	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 race	det
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ready	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
13	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Carrier	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Ball	punct
15	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 begged	nsubj
16	silently	silently	ADV	_	17 begged	advmod
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 settled	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 spirits	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spirits	amod
20	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 begged	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 let	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 let	mark
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 settled	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 hands	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hands	det
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fall	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 witch	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 witch	det
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 witch	amod
37	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hands	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	settle	gerund · passive		This			tree rules
2	make	past	miles = mile			ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	beg speech: request	past	Ball Carrier	the good spirits		silently property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient
4	help	to-infinitive	Ball Carrier not said here		Carrier		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	not let	to-infinitive		Carrier			tree rules
6	fall	infinitive	Carrier not said here			into the hands of this wicked witch result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result

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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