The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 41
Then Graciosa begged him to give her a written message telling the Queen that he had refused to admit her.
Who acts: Graciosa, written message, governor · What happens: beg, give, write, tell, refuse, not admit · To what, where: governor, written message, Graciosa, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, written message, governor), 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 | 3 begged | advmod |
| 2 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 message | det |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 message | amod |
| 10 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 message | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 telling | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 refused | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 refused | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 refused | aux |
| 17 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 telling | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 admit | mark |
| 19 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 refused | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 admit | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Graciosa | governor | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Graciosa not said here | a written message | Graciosa | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient message=Theme | |||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a written message not said here | the Queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past · perfect | governor | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not admit speech: other | to-infinitive | governor not said here | Graciosa | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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