The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 77
The old King begged her to tell him all, and left her no peace, but he could get nothing out of her.
Who acts: old King, King, girl · What happens: beg, tell, leave, get, pacify · To what, where: girl, all, King, peace, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, King, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 peace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 peace | det |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the old King | girl | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old King not said here | all | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Topic | |||
| 3 | leave | past | the old King not said here | girl's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | could | King | nothing | out girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | pacify | girl | nom peace «state 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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