The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 66

But the little creature was determined to do it, and begged and prayed so long that the mother was forced to let him have some old rags, and tie up a little food for him, and then gaily and happily he went out into the world.

Who acts: little creature, mother, Heaven · What happens: be, do, beg, pray, force, let · To what, where: creature, mother, Heaven, old rags, little food, world

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (little creature, mother, Heaven), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 determined	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creature	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 determined	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 determined	cop
6	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 begged	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 determined	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prayed	cc
14	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 begged	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 prayed	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 forced	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mother	det
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forced	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 forced	aux:pass
21	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 long	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 let	mark
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 forced	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 rags	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rags	amod
28	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tie	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tie	cc
31	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begged	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 tie	compound:prt
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 food	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 food	amod
35	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tie	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tie	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 gaily	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 gaily	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 gaily	advmod
41	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 begged	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 went	cc
43	happily	happily	ADV	_	45 went	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 went	nsubj
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 gaily	conj
46	out	out	ADV	_	45 went	advmod
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 world	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 world	det
49	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little creature			determined property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the little creature not said here	creature			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	beg speech: request	past					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	pray	past				long property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	force	past · passive		the mother			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	let	to-infinitive	the mother not said here	Heaven			tree rules
7	have	infinitive	Heaven not said here	some old rags			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Patient
8	tie up	infinitive		a little food		for Heaven	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
9	go out	past	Heaven		the world	happily, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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