The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 15
But Dullhead begged so hard to be allowed to go that at last his father said: ‘Very well, then—go.
Who acts: Dullhead, father · What happens: beg, allow, go, say · To what, where: that, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, father), 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 begged | cc |
| 2 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 begged | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 allowed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hard | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 begged | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 go | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 19 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 20 well | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 begged | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 well | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 begged | advmod |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Dullhead | then | hard, well property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | allow | to-infinitive · passive | Dullhead not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | that | last | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Dullhead's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Dullhead not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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