The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 43

On seeing them the parson called out and begged them to come and rescue him and the clerk.

What happens: see, call out, beg, come, rescue · To what, where: girls, parson

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: 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 seeing	mark
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 begged	advcl
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seeing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parson	det
5	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeing	obj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 parson	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 called	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rescue	cc
14	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rescue	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 clerk	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clerk	det
18	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 him	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	gerund	girls = girl		tree rules
2	call out speech: assert	participle	the parson not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past		girls = girl	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rescue	infinitive	parson		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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