The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 9

Halvor still begged for leave, and at last got it, but he was to come back at once if the wind began to rise.

Who acts: Halvor, wind · What happens: beg, get, come back, begin, rise · To what, where: skipper, last

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, wind), 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	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 begged	advmod
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 leave	case
5	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 come	obl
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 began	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wind	det
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 rise	mark
26	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Halvor			still	for leave	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for leave=Topic
2	get	past	Halvor not said here	skipper	last			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Asset
3	come back	past	Halvor					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	begin a condition, not said to happen	past	the wind					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	rise	to-infinitive	the wind not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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