The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 40

The father said, ‘No; he must not do that, for if he does we shall have no more delight in him this time;’ but he spoke in vain, for the mother begged and prayed until at last he went.

Who acts: father, we, mother · What happens: say, not do, have, speak, beg, pray · To what, where: that, more delight, vain, last · 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 (father, we, mother), 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 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
6	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 do	discourse
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 No	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 do	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 does	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 does	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 do	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 delight	det
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 delight	amod
23	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 delight	nmod
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl:unmarked
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 spoke	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spoke	nsubj
32	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 vain	case
34	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 spoke	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 begged	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 begged	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mother	det
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 begged	nsubj
39	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 spoke	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 prayed	cc
41	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 begged	conj
42	until	until	SCONJ	_	46 went	mark
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 went	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 went	nsubj
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 prayed	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	must	father	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	have	shall · present · do-support	we	no more delight		time	in father	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Patient
4	speak speech: other	past	father		vain			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	past	the mother					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	pray	past	the mother not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	go	past	father		last			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location

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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