The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 7
The Princess wept, and begged him most earnestly not to go and leave her; but Ritter Red did not concern himself about that.
Who acts: Princess, Ritter · What happens: weep, beg, not go, leave, do · To what, where: Ritter, Princess, concern · 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 (Princess, Ritter), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 begged | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 begged | cc |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begged | obj |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 earnestly | advmod |
| 9 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 begged | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 18 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 did | nsubj |
| 19 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ritter | flat |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 concern | advmod |
| 22 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | obj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 concern | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 concern | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the Princess | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the Princess not said here | Ritter | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not go not said to happen | to-infinitive | earnestly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | past | Ritter | concern Ritter | about that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concern=Eventuality |
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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