The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 7

One day, as she was at this fountain, there came to her a poor woman, who begged of her to let her drink.

Who acts: living, poor woman · What happens: be, come, beg, let, drink · To what, where: fountain, living · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living, poor woman), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fountain	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 fountain	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fountain	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fountain	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 came	expl
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begged	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 begged	nsubj
20	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 woman	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begged	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begged	ccomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	living			this fountain			tree rules
2	come	past	a poor woman		living	there	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	beg speech: request	past	a poor woman					of living	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		living					tree rules
5	drink	infinitive	living not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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