The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 25
‘Begged you to come!’ repeated the dwarf, ‘and who, then, are you?’
Who acts: you · What happens: beg, come, repeat, be · To what, where: you, dwarf
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Begged | punct |
| 2 | Begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 repeated | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Begged | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Begged | advcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Begged | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dwarf | det |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 repeated | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 14 who | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 who | cc |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 repeated | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 who | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 who | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 then | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 who | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 who | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | participle | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | repeat | past | the dwarf | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | then | tree rules |
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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