The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 67

And without listening to his wife and children, who were frightened at his strange conduct and begged him to stay at home, he ran across to the tavern and burst open the door.

Who acts: matter · What happens: listen, frighten, beg, stay, run, burst · To what, where: children, strange conduct, matter, home, door

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
2	without	without	SCONJ	_	3 listening	mark
3	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ran	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listening	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 children	cc
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wife	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frightened	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 frightened	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	aux:pass
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 children	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 conduct	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 conduct	nmod:poss
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 conduct	amod
16	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frightened	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begged	cc
18	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begged	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stay	mark
21	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begged	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 listening	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ran	nsubj
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	across	across	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 tavern	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tavern	det
30	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 burst	cc
32	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ran	conj
33	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 burst	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 open	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund	matter not said here				to matter's wife and children	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wife=Theme
2	frighten	past · passive		children		matter's strange conduct		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	beg speech: request	past			matter			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive				home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	run	past	matter				to the tavern result; across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tavern=Result
6	burst	past	matter not said here					tree rules
7	open	infinitive	matter not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
8	conduct		matter					nom conduct «act 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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