The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 17

When the youth came to the first princess, she called to him and begged him to come to her very prettily, but he walked on as if he did not even see her, and he passed by the second in the same way, but he went up to the third.

Who acts: youth, Whiteland · What happens: come, call, beg, walk on, not see, pass · To what, where: Whiteland, youth, same way · 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 (youth, Whiteland), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 called	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 princess	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 princess	amod
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 begged	cc
15	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 called	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 begged	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begged	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	obl
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 prettily	advmod
22	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 walked	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 walked	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 walked	nsubj
26	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 called	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 walked	compound:prt
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 see	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 see	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 see	advmod
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 see	advmod
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 walked	advcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 passed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 passed	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 passed	nsubj
39	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 called	parataxis
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 second	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 second	det
42	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 passed	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 way	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 way	det
45	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 way	amod
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 passed	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 went	cc
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 went	nsubj
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 passed	conj
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 went	compound:prt
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 third	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 third	det
54	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	50 went	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the youth				to the first princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location
2	call speech: assert	past	youth		Whiteland			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	beg speech: request	past	youth not said here		Whiteland			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	youth not said here		youth		prettily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
5	walk on	past	Whiteland					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not see	past · do-support	Whiteland	youth				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	pass	past	Whiteland			the same way	by the second	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by second=Location
8	go up	past	Whiteland				to the third	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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