The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 78
Then, begging the priest and the guards to leave them alone for a little, she told the young man what he was to do, when the next morning he was brought before the king and the judges.
Who acts: Madam, priest · What happens: beg, leave, tell, be, bring · To what, where: priest, guards, young man, next morning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, priest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 begging | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 begging | punct |
| 3 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 told | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begging | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 guards | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guards | det |
| 8 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 priest | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begging | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 leave | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 little | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 leave | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 begging | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 do | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 man | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 brought | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 brought | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 morning | det |
| 30 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 morning | amod |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 brought | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 brought | aux:pass |
| 34 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 man | acl |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 king | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 brought | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 judges | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 judges | det |
| 40 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 king | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | gerund | Madam not said here | the priest and the guards | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Madam not said here | guards = guard | for a little; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme for little=Recipient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Madam | the young man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | priest | do property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · passive | the next morning | before the king and the judges | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination |
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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