The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 71

One day she was going to church to hear a sermon from a great preacher, and she begged the Shifty Lad, as the neighbours called him from the tricks he played, to come with her.

Who acts: answer, neighbours, widow · What happens: go, hear, beg, call, play, come · To what, where: church, sermon, Shifty Lad, widow, tricks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (answer, neighbours, widow), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 church	mark
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hear	mark
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sermon	det
11	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 preacher	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 preacher	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 preacher	amod
15	preacher	preacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	nsubj
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Lad	det
21	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Lad	amod
22	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 begged	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 called	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neighbours	det
26	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 called	nsubj
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 begged	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 tricks	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tricks	det
31	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 called	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 played	nsubj
33	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tricks	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 come	mark
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 played	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 come	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	answer	church			day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive	answer not said here	a sermon				from a great preacher	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sermon=Topic from preacher=Source
3	beg speech: request	past	answer		the Shifty Lad				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient
4	call	past	the neighbours	widow		the tricks			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from trick=Source
5	play	past	widow	the tricks not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
6	come	to-infinitive	widow not said here					with answer	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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