The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 34

The old man did his best to comfort her by repeating all he had said before, but she begged him afresh to tell her truly where his heart was and at last he told her.

Who acts: old man, man, bride, heart · What happens: do, comfort, repeat, say, beg, tell · To what, where: best, bride, all, man, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, bride, heart), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 best	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 comfort	mark
8	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 comfort	obj
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 repeating	mark
11	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 comfort	advcl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 repeating	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 all	acl:relcl
16	before	before	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begged	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 begged	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begged	nsubj
20	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begged	obj
22	afresh	afresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 begged	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begged	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	truly	truly	ADV	_	35 told	advmod
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 told	advmod
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 heart	nmod:poss
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 told	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	cop
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 told	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 last	case
33	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 told	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	nsubj
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	advcl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the old man	man's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	comfort	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	bride				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	repeat	gerund	the old man not said here	all				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	man				before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	past	bride		man		afresh property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	bride not said here		bride			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	is	past	man's heart		bride	last	tell, truly property	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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