The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 72

Next day the brothers were for setting out again, and this time too Cinderlad begged them to let him go with them and see who rode; but no, they said he was not fit to do that, for he was much too ugly and dirty.

Who acts: brothers, time, brother, lords · What happens: set out, beg, let, go, see, ride · To what, where: lords, brother, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, time, brother, lords), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 setting	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 setting	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 setting	aux
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 setting	mark
7	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 begged	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 setting	compound:prt
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 setting	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begged	nsubj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 Cinderlad	advmod
15	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 time	appos
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 begged	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 let	mark
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begged	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 rode	nsubj
27	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	ccomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
30	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	33 said	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 begged	conj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fit	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 fit	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 fit	advmod
37	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 said	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 fit	xcomp
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 do	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 ugly	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 ugly	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 ugly	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 ugly	cop
45	much	much	ADV	_	47 ugly	advmod
46	too	too	ADV	_	47 ugly	advmod
47	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 said	ccomp
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 dirty	cc
49	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ugly	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past · progressive	the brothers			again; day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	this time		lords = lord			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		brother				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	brother not said here				with lords = lord	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
5	see	infinitive	brother not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	ride	past						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	lords = lord					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	not is	past	brother				fit property	tree rules
9	do	to-infinitive	brother not said here	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
10	is	past	brother				ugly property	tree rules
11	be		brother not said here					tree rules

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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