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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 79

But presently he took courage and delivered his harangue, bravely ending by begging the Princess to spare him the disappointment of going back without her.

Who acts: messenger, disappointment · What happens: take, deliver, end, beg, spare, go back · To what, where: courage, harangue, Princess, messenger

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, disappointment), 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

ccadvmodnsubjobjccconjnmod:possobjpunctadvmodadvclmarkadvcldetobjmarkaclobjdetobjmarkacladvmodcaseoblpunctrootButCCONJpresentlyADVhePRONtookVERBcourageNOUNandCCONJdeliveredVERBhisPRONharangueNOUN,PUNCTbravelyADVendingVERBbySCONJbeggingVERBtheDETPrincessNOUNtoPARTspareVERBhimPRONtheDETdisappointmentNOUNofSCONJgoingVERBbackADVwithoutADPherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_4 tookcc
2presentlypresentlyADV_4 tookadvmod
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 tooknsubj
4tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5couragecourageNOUNNumber=Sing4 tookobj
6andandCCONJ_7 deliveredcc
7delivereddeliverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 tookconj
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 haranguenmod:poss
9harangueharangueNOUNNumber=Sing7 deliveredobj
10,,PUNCT_12 endingpunct
11bravelybravelyADV_12 endingadvmod
12endingendVERBVerbForm=Ger7 deliveredadvcl
13bybySCONJ_14 beggingmark
14beggingbegVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 endingadvcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Princessdet
16PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing14 beggingobj
17totoPART_18 sparemark
18sparespareVERBVerbForm=Inf16 Princessacl
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 spareobj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 disappointmentdet
21disappointmentdisappointmentNOUNNumber=Sing18 spareobj
22ofofSCONJ_23 goingmark
23goinggoVERBVerbForm=Ger21 disappointmentacl
24backbackADV_23 goingadvmod
25withoutwithoutADP_26 hercase
26hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 goingobl
27..PUNCT_4 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastmessengercouragepresently propertyvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
2deliverpastmessenger not said heremessenger's haranguevn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harangue=Patient
3endgerundmessenger not said herebravely propertyvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4beg speech: requestgerundmessenger not said herethe Princessvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
5spareto-infinitivemessenger not said heremessengervn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient disappointment=Asset
6go backgerundthe disappointment not said herewithout princessvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7haranguemessengernom harangue «communication transitive»: poss=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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