The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 223

He begged that she would tell him all her history, as she might safely trust him.

Who acts: Frisk, Rosette · What happens: beg, tell, trust · To what, where: history, Frisk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frisk, Rosette), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 tell	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 history	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 history	nmod:poss
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trust	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 trust	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trust	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 trust	aux
15	safely	safely	ADV	_	16 trust	advmod
16	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trust	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Frisk				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	would	Rosette	Rosette's history	Frisk		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient history=Topic
3	trust	might	Rosette	Frisk		safely property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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