The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 99
He also turned into the same inn as his brothers, and when these saw him they assailed him with many entreaties to remain with them and share their merry life.
Who acts: king, these, guests · What happens: turn, see, assail, remain, share · To what, where: same inn, king, merry life
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, these, guests), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 inn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inn | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 inn | amod |
| 7 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 brothers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 assailed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 assailed | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 assailed | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 assailed | nsubj |
| 18 | assailed | assail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 assailed | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 entreaties | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 entreaties | amod |
| 22 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 assailed | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 remain | mark |
| 24 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 assailed | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remain | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 share | cc |
| 28 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 remain | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 life | amod |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 share | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | king | the same inn | as king's brothers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into inn=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | see | past | these | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | assail | past | guests = guest | king | with many entreaties | tree rules | |||
| 4 | remain | to-infinitive | guests = guest not said here | with guests = guest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | share | present | guests = guest not said here | guests's merry life | tree rules |
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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