The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 20
She would not give it up, however, but went on begging until at last she got leave.
Who acts: Kari · What happens: not give up, go, beg, get, leave · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kari), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 give | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 begging | mark |
| 13 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 14 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 begging | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 begging | ccomp |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 got | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give up | would | Kari | water | however property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | |||
| 2 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | gerund | until last | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | past | Kari | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | Kari not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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