The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 7

Then one day he begged to have leave to go out with his father to fish; he had a strong desire to do this, he said.

Who acts: lad · What happens: beg, have, go out, do, say · To what, where: leave, strong desire, this · 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 (lad), 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	5 begged	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begged	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begged	nsubj
5	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	xcomp
8	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	acl
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 fish	case
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begged	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 desire	det
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 desire	amod
22	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	advcl
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 do	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	lad		then; day		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	lad not said here	leave			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient
3	go out	to-infinitive	lad not said here	leave not said here		with lad's father to fish; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent
4	have	past	lad	a strong desire			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	lad not said here	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	past	lad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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