The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 60

Old Eric then began to lament and howl, begging him just to let him go, and he would never come back to the lake again.

Who acts: Old Eric, Eric · What happens: begin, lament, howl, beg, let, go · To what, where: Eric, lake

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Eric, Eric), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Eric	amod
2	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lament	mark
6	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 howl	cc
8	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lament	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begging	punct
10	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begging	obj
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 let	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 let	mark
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begging	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	parataxis
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 lake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lake	det
26	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
27	again	again	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	Old Eric				then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lament	to-infinitive	Old Eric not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	howl	infinitive	Old Eric not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beg speech: request	gerund	Old Eric not said here		Eric			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	Old Eric not said here	Eric				tree rules
6	go	infinitive	Eric not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not come back	would	Eric			the lake	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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