The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 42

Upon this she threw herself at her husband’s feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of true repentance, vowing that she would never more be disobedient.

Who acts: lady, husband · What happens: throw, beg, vow, be, pardon, sign · To what, where: lady, feet, pardon, true repentance

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, husband), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 threw	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 feet	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feet	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 husband	case
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pardon	nmod:poss
15	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 signs	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 signs	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 signs	det
19	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 begged	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 repentance	case
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 repentance	amod
22	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 signs	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 vowing	punct
24	vowing	vow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 begged	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 disobedient	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 disobedient	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 disobedient	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 disobedient	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 disobedient	cop
31	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 vowing	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	lady	lady	lady's husband's feet	upon this	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon this=Destination
2	beg speech: request	past	lady not said here	husband's pardon		with all signs of true repentance	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
3	vow	gerund	lady not said here				tree rules
4	is	would	lady			disobedient property	tree rules
5	pardon		husband				nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	sign			true repentance			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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