The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 29

But she flung herself at her father’s feet, and prayed him to delay.

Who acts: princess · What happens: fling, pray, delay · To what, where: princess, feet, father

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 flung	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flung	nsubj
3	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 flung	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 feet	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feet	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flung	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prayed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 prayed	cc
12	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flung	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prayed	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 delay	mark
15	delay	delay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 prayed	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fling	past	princess	princess	princess's father's feet	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination
2	pray	past	princess not said here	father		tree rules
3	delay	to-infinitive	princess not said here			vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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