The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 85

Then her voice softened, and she begged him quite politely to tell her where he had spent his evening, and how he had come by these wonderful riches.

Who acts: voice, blaze · What happens: soften, beg, tell, spend, come · To what, where: blaze, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, blaze), 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	4 softened	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 voice	nmod:poss
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 softened	nsubj
4	softened	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begged	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 begged	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begged	nsubj
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 softened	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begged	obj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 politely	advmod
11	politely	politely	ADV	_	8 begged	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begged	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 spent	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spent	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spent	aux
18	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 tell	ccomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 evening	nmod:poss
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spent	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 come	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 softened	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 riches	case
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 riches	det
29	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 riches	amod
30	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 softened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	soften	past	woman's voice		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	voice	blaze		politely property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	voice not said here	woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	spend	past · perfect	blaze		evening		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	come	past · perfect	blaze			by this wonderful riches	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rich=Location

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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