The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 23

Then the Queen and all the fairies began to beg and beseech her to think better of it, and not be so unkind to the poor little Princess, who had never done her any harm.

Who acts: Queen, poor little Princess · What happens: begin, beg, beseech, think, not be, not do · To what, where: Queen

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, poor little Princess), 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	8 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fairies	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fairies	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairies	det
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Queen	conj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 beg	mark
10	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beseech	cc
12	beseech	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 beg	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beseech	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beseech	advcl
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 think	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 better	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unkind	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 unkind	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 unkind	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 unkind	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 unkind	advmod
24	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 began	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 Princess	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Princess	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Princess	amod
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 unkind	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 done	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 done	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 done	advmod
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 Princess	acl:relcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	obj
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 harm	det
37	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 done	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Queen and all fairies		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	the Queen and all fairies not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	beseech	infinitive	the Queen and all fairies not said here	Queen			tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the Queen and all fairies not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	infinitive	the Queen and all fairies not said here			to the poor little Princess; unkind property	tree rules
6	not do	past · perfect	the poor little Princess	Queen			tree rules

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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