The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 65

The Princess begged him very prettily to go lest the Troll should devour him; but Halvor said, ‘Let him come when he will.’

Who acts: Princess, Troll, Halvor · What happens: beg, go, devour, say, let, come · To what, where: Troll, Halvor · 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 (Princess, Troll, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 prettily	advmod
6	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	3 begged	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	advcl
9	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 devour	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Troll	det
11	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 devour	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 devour	aux
13	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 devour	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
21	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Let	obj
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Let	xcomp
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 will	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 will	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the Princess		Troll	prettily property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	go	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	devour	should	the Troll	Halvor			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Halvor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let	infinitive		Troll			tree rules
6	come	infinitive	Troll not said here				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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