The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 9
Christian said, very humbly, that he dared not, and therefore wanted to get away, and begged to be let go.
Who acts: Christian · What happens: say, not dare, want, get away, beg, let · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian), 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 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 humbly | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 humbly | advmod |
| 5 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dared | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dared | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dared | nsubj |
| 9 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dared | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | cc |
| 13 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 wanted | advmod |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 begged | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 begged | cc |
| 20 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wanted | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 let | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | aux:pass |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 begged | ccomp |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Christian | humbly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not dare | past | Christian | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want | past | therefore property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get away not said to happen | to-infinitive | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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