The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 97

The king was unwilling to risk his third son on such an errand, but he begged so long that his father had at last to consent.

Who acts: king, father · What happens: unwill, risk, beg, have, consent · To what, where: third son, errand

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, father), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unwilling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unwilling	aux
4	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 risk	mark
6	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unwilling	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 risk	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 errand	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 errand	det:predet
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 errand	det
13	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 risk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unwilling	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 begged	xcomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 long	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 had	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 consent	mark
27	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 last	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unwilling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unwill	past · progressive	the king				tree rules
2	risk	to-infinitive	the king not said here	king's third son	such errand		vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Pivot
3	beg speech: request	past	king			long property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	king's father			last property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	consent	to-infinitive	king's father not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «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 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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