The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 113
The prince begged to be allowed to sit in the other carriage, and when they were half-way he opened his snuff-box.
Who acts: prince, clothes · What happens: beg, allow, sit, be, open · To what, where: other carriage, way, snuff box · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, clothes), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 allowed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | aux:pass |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 begged | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sit | mark |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 carriage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carriage | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carriage | amod |
| 12 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 way | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 way | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 way | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 way | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | cop |
| 18 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 way | advmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 half | punct |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | parataxis |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 opened | nsubj |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 box | nmod:poss |
| 24 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 box | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 snuff | punct |
| 26 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 opened | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | the other carriage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in carriage=Location | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | clothes | way | half property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | open | past | prince | prince's snuff box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=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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