The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 47

The two brothers laughed at him, and his father and mother begged him not to go, but all to no purpose, and Cinderlad set out on his way.

Who acts: two brothers, father, all · What happens: laugh, beg, not go, set out · To what, where: Cinderlad, way

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, father, all), 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	3 brothers	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mother	cc
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	conj
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 go	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 set	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 set	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 set	nsubj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 purpose	case
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 purpose	det
23	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 all	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 set	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 set	cc
26	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 set	nsubj
27	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 set	compound:prt
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 set	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the two brothers			at Cinderlad	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	Cinderlad's father and mother	Cinderlad			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	Cinderlad's father and mother not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	set out	past	all		Cinderlad's way		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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