The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 117

In spite of all his father’s and mother’s entreaties, he would not stay, but bade them farewell, saying that he would never see them more, for if he did not find the Princess again he did not think it worth while to live.

Who acts: Halvor · What happens: not stay, say, not see, not find, not think, live · To what, where: bade, spite, entreaties, Princess, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 father	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 father	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 entreaties	cc
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entreaties	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spite	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stay	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stay	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stay	advmod
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bade	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 bade	cc
19	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	obj
21	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	16 stay	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 stay	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saying	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 see	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 find	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 find	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 find	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 find	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 find	advmod
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stay	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Princess	det
39	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obj
40	again	again	ADV	_	37 find	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 think	nsubj
42	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 think	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 think	advmod
44	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 find	ccomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 think	obj
46	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 think	xcomp
47	while	while	SCONJ	_	49 live	mark
48	to	to	PART	_	49 live	mark
49	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 worth	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stay	would	Halvor	bade	spite of Halvor's father and mother's entreaties		farewell property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bade=Location
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Halvor not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not see	would	Halvor	entreaties = entreaty				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	not find a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Halvor	the Princess		again		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute clause=Theme
5	not think speech: other	past · do-support	Halvor	bade			worth property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	live	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	spite			Halvor's father				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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