The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 24

She could scarcely believe him at first, and was eager at once to go back and share the fate of her dear ones; but the old nurse, with many tears, besought her to remember that she had still a child, and that it was her duty to preserve her life for the sake of the poor innocent.

Who acts: Beanstalk, nurse · What happens: believe, be, go back, share, beseech, remember · To what, where: Rumour, fate, Beanstalk, child, duty, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beanstalk, nurse), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 believe	advmod
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 believe	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eager	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eager	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eager	cop
11	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 believe	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 eager	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 eager	xcomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 share	cc
18	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fate	det
20	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 share	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 ones	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ones	nmod:poss
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ones	amod
24	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fate	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 nurse	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 nurse	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nurse	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nurse	amod
29	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tears	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 tears	case
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tears	amod
33	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nurse	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 besought	punct
35	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nurse	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 besought	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 remember	mark
38	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 besought	advcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 had	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 remember	ccomp
42	still	still	ADV	_	44 child	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 child	det
44	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 duty	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 duty	cc
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 duty	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 duty	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 duty	cop
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 duty	nmod:poss
51	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nurse	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 preserve	mark
53	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 duty	acl
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 life	nmod:poss
55	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 preserve	obj
56	for	for	ADP	_	58 sake	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 sake	det
58	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 preserve	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	62 innocent	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 innocent	det
61	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 innocent	amod
62	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 sake	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	could	Beanstalk	Rumour	scarcely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	past	Beanstalk not said here		eager property	tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive	Beanstalk not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	share	infinitive	Beanstalk not said here	the fate of Beanstalk's dear ones		tree rules
5	beseech	past	Beanstalk not said here	Beanstalk		tree rules
6	remember	to-infinitive	Beanstalk not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	have	past	Beanstalk	a child		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
8	is a	past	nurse	Beanstalk's duty		tree rules
9	preserve	to-infinitive	Beanstalk not said here	Beanstalk's life	for the sake of the poor innocent	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary
10	fate			Beanstalk's dear ones		nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient

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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