The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 62
This evening also, Minnikin begged for leave to go down to the sea-shore.
Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: beg, go down · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Minnikin), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 begged | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 also | punct |
| 5 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | nsubj |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 leave | case |
| 8 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begged | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shore | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sea | punct |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Minnikin | evening | for leave | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go down not said to happen | to-infinitive | to the sea shore; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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