The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 13

‘Whiteland,’ answered the man, and then he begged the youth to tell him whence he came and what he was going to do, and the youth did so.

Who acts: Whiteland, youth · What happens: answer, beg, tell, come, go, do · To what, where: man, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whiteland, youth), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Whiteland	punct
2	Whiteland	Whiteland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Whiteland	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Whiteland	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 begged	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begged	nsubj
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youth	det
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begged	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 going	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 going	nsubj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 going	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 came	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 going	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 youth	det
31	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
33	so	so	ADV	_	32 did	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Whiteland		the man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	past	Whiteland	the youth		then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive			man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	come	past	Whiteland				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past · progressive						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	do	past	the youth					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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