The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 9

She begged that she might be allowed to spend another night in her father’s house.

Who acts: girl · What happens: beg, allow, spend · To what, where: girl, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 allowed	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 allowed	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 allowed	aux:pass
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 begged	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 spend	mark
9	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 allowed	xcomp
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spend	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 father	case
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spend	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	girl				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	allow	might · passive		girl			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	spend not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here		girl's father's house	night	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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