The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 57

She received them graciously, but after a few minutes begged that they would leave her alone with the Prince, to whom she said:

Who acts: princess, astonishment · What happens: receive, beg, leave, say · To what, where: astonishment, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, astonishment), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	obj
4	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	2 received	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 begged	cc
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minutes	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minutes	amod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 begged	obl
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 received	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 leave	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 leave	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 leave	aux
15	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begged	ccomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 leave	obj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 leave	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 Prince	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Prince	det
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 leave	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 begged	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 whom	acl:relcl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	princess	astonishment			graciously property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	princess not said here			minute		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	would	astonishment		princess		with the Prince; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with prince=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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