The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 67

We beg you not to insist upon going on.

Who acts: We, you · What happens: beg, not insist, go on · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 beg	nsubj
2	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 insist	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 insist	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 insist	mark
6	insist	insist	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 beg	ccomp
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 insist	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 going	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	We	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not insist speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	you	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	go on	gerund	you not said here	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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