The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 152

They wanted her to stay on in the palace, but she begged for a little carriage and a horse, and a pair of shoes so that she might go out again into the world to look for Kay.

Who acts: people, Gerda · What happens: want, stay on, beg, go out, look · To what, where: Gerda, palace, world

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Gerda), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 stay	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begged	nsubj
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 carriage	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 carriage	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 carriage	amod
17	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 horse	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carriage	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pair	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pair	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pair	det
24	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carriage	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 shoes	case
26	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pair	nmod
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 go	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	ccomp
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 look	mark
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 Kay	case
40	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 look	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	people	Gerda				tree rules
2	stay on not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here		the palace			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
3	beg speech: request	past	Gerda				for a little carriage and a horse and a pair of shoes	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go out	might	Gerda		the world	again	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here				for Kay	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for kay=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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