The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 69

But she spoke to no purpose, for the boy begged and prayed until he had got some old rags and a bundle of provisions, and then he set out manfully into the world to find his twin brother.

Who acts: woman, boy · What happens: speak, beg, pray, get, set out, find · To what, where: old rags, world, twin brother · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, boy), 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	_	3 spoke	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 purpose	det
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 begged	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	nsubj
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 prayed	cc
13	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 begged	conj
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 got	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	aux
17	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 prayed	ccomp
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 rags	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rags	amod
20	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bundle	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bundle	det
23	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rags	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 provisions	case
25	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bundle	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 set	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	nsubj
30	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 begged	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 set	compound:prt
32	manfully	manfully	ADV	_	30 set	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 set	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 find	mark
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 set	advcl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 brother	nmod:poss
39	twin	twin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brother	compound
40	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	woman				to no purpose	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to purpose=Co-Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	the boy					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	pray	past	the boy not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	get	past · perfect	boy	some old rags and a bundle of provisions				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rag=Stimulus
5	set out	past	boy		the world	then	manfully property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
6	find	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy's twin brother				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic

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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