The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 60
The Princess wept and entreated him to stay, but all to no purpose.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: weep, entreat, stay · To what, where: all, purpose, Ritter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 entreated | cc |
| 5 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 entreated | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stay | mark |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 entreated | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 all | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wept | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 purpose | det |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the Princess | all | no purpose | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to purpose=Recipient | |||
| 2 | entreat | past | the Princess not said here | Ritter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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