The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 45
And he begged and prayed till at last she consented.
Who acts: King, sister · What happens: beg, pray, consent · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sister), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 begged | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 prayed | cc |
| 5 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begged | conj |
| 6 | till | till | ADV | _ | 5 prayed | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prayed | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 consented | nsubj |
| 10 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 last | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | King | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | past | King not said here | last | till property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | consent | past | sister | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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