The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 119

The Princess knocked at the door, and begged to be let in that she might rest a little.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: knock, beg, let, rest · To what, where: that, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knocked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knocked	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 let	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	aux:pass
12	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 begged	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 let	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rest	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rest	aux
17	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 little	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rest	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	the Princess			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	the Princess not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive			that		tree rules
4	rest	might	Princess	a little			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=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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