The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 62

The Prince or some one else might very easily catch sight of her, they said, and then both she and they would suffer for it; but Kari said that they had something else to do than to look at her, and she never ceased begging until she got leave to go.

Who acts: Prince, stairs, both, Kari · What happens: catch, say, suffer, have, do, look · To what, where: sight, something, Kari · 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 (Prince, stairs, both, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 catch	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 one	cc
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	appos
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	aux
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 easily	advmod
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 catch	advmod
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sight	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 suffer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 suffer	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 both	advmod
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 suffer	nsubj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 suffer	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 suffer	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 suffer	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 suffer	aux
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 suffer	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
30	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	ccomp
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 had	obj
36	else	else	ADV	_	35 something	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 something	acl
39	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 look	mark
40	to	to	PART	_	41 look	mark
41	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 do	advcl
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 look	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 ceased	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 ceased	cc
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 ceased	nsubj
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	48 ceased	advmod
48	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	conj
49	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 ceased	xcomp
50	until	until	SCONJ	_	52 got	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 got	nsubj
52	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 ceased	advcl
53	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 got	xcomp
54	to	to	PART	_	55 go	mark
55	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 leave	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	might	the Prince	sight of Kari	easily property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	stairs = stair			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suffer	would	both		for sight	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Kari			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past	stairs = stair	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive	stairs = stair not said here	something not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	to-infinitive	stairs = stair not said here		at Kari	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
8	not cease	past	Kari			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
9	beg speech: request	gerund	Kari not said here			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
10	get	past	Kari			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	leave	infinitive	Kari not said here			tree rules
12	go	to-infinitive	Kari not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	sight			Kari		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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