The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 32

He caught her by the fur coat, and begged and implored her not to go, for if she did she would certainly never return.

Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: catch, beg, implore, not go, do, not return · To what, where: wife

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 coat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coat	det
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	compound
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 implored	cc
12	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begged	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 implored	obj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 go	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 implored	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 return	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 return	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 did	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 return	advcl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 return	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 return	aux
24	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	26 return	advmod
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 return	advmod
26	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	husband	wife	by the fur coat	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	husband not said here			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	implore	past	husband not said here	wife		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not go	to-infinitive	husband not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do a condition, not said to happen	past	wife			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not return	would	wife		certainly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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