The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 94

He woke her, and begged her firmly, but politely, to follow him quickly.

Who acts: resistance · What happens: wake, beg, follow · To what, where: girl, resistance

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resistance), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 begged	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 begged	cc
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 begged	obj
8	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	6 begged	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 follow	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 follow	cc
11	politely	politely	ADV	_	14 follow	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 follow	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 follow	mark
14	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 follow	obj
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	14 follow	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wake	past	resistance	girl			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	resistance not said here		girl	firmly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	follow	to-infinitive		resistance		politely, quickly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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