The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 80
When Miranda heard it she begged the King of the Sheep to allow her to go and see the wedding as before.
Who acts: Miranda · What happens: hear, beg, allow, go, see · To what, where: news, King, Miranda, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (Miranda), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | nsubj |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sheep | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sheep | det |
| 11 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 King | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 allow | mark |
| 13 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begged | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 allow | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allow | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wedding | det |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 before | case |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 see | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Miranda | news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Miranda | the King of the Sheep | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | allow | to-infinitive | Miranda not said here | Miranda | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Miranda not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | Miranda not said here | the wedding | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wedding=Stimulus as before=Attribute |
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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