The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 94

The Queen, quite delighted, thanked the Fairy gratefully, and begged her to take charge of the little Delicia and bring her up as her own daughter.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: thank, beg, take, bring up, charge · To what, where: Fairy, charge, little Delicia

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thanked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 delighted	advmod
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Queen	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
7	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thanked	obj
10	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	7 thanked	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thanked	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	xcomp
17	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Delicia	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Delicia	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Delicia	amod
21	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 charge	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bring	cc
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 bring	compound:prt
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 daughter	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughter	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 daughter	amod
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the Queen		the Fairy	gratefully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	the Queen not said here		fairy		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	charge of the little Delicia			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme
4	bring up	infinitive	the Queen not said here	fairy		as Queen's own daughter	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	charge			the little Delicia			nom charge «act 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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