The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 18

All the sons and daughters at once thought that their poverty was at an end, and wanted to set out directly for the town; but their father, who was more prudent, begged them to wait a little, and, though it was harvest time, and he could ill be spared, determined to go himself first, to make inquiries.

Who acts: sons, poverty, father · What happens: think, be, want, set out, beg, wait · To what, where: end, sons, little, harvest time, ill, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (sons, poverty, father), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sons	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sons	det
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thought	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daughters	cc
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sons	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 thought	obl
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 end	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 poverty	nmod:poss
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 end	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wanted	cc
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 set	mark
20	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanted	xcomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 set	compound:prt
22	directly	directly	ADV	_	20 set	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 town	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 town	det
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 begged	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 begged	cc
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 begged	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 prudent	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 prudent	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 prudent	cop
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 prudent	advmod
34	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 father	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 father	punct
36	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 begged	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 wait	mark
39	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 begged	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 little	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wait	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 time	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 time	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 time	punct
45	though	though	SCONJ	_	49 time	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 time	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 time	cop
48	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 time	compound
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wait	obl:unmarked
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 spared	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 could	cc
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 could	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 spared	aux
54	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 spared	nsubj:pass
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 spared	aux:pass
56	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 begged	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 determined	punct
58	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 spared	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 go	mark
60	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 determined	xcomp
61	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	60 go	obj
62	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	60 go	advmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 make	punct
64	to	to	PART	_	65 make	mark
65	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 go	conj
66	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 make	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	all sons and daughters					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	sons's poverty			at a end		tree rules
3	want	past	all sons and daughters not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	set out not said to happen	to-infinitive	all sons and daughters not said here				for the town; directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	sons's father				prudent property	tree rules
6	beg speech: request	past	sons's father		sons = son			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	sons's father not said here	a little				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	past	poverty	harvest time				tree rules
9	spare	could · passive		ill				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset
10	go	to-infinitive		father			first property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
11	make	to-infinitive		inquiries				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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