The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 52
Then he fell on his knees before her, and prayed her to forgive him, and a great feast was made in her honour.
Who acts: Shall, woman · What happens: fall, pray, forgive, make, honour · To what, where: knees, woman, Shall, great feast, honour
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shall, woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 knees | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prayed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 prayed | cc |
| 11 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 prayed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 forgive | mark |
| 14 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 prayed | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forgive | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 feast | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feast | amod |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 honour | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 honour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Shall | Shall's knees | before woman; then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 2 | pray | past | Shall not said here | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forgive | to-infinitive | Shall not said here | Shall | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | a great feast | woman's honour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | honour | woman | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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