The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 253

Then the old man went down on his knees before the King and begged for time to tell him everything.

Who acts: old man · What happens: go down, beg, tell · To what, where: knees, everything, Minister · 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 (old man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 knees	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knees	nmod:poss
9	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 King	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 begged	cc
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 begged	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 tell	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the old man			Minister's knees	before the King; then	down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	beg speech: request	past	the old man not said here				time		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	everything	Minister				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic

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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