The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 38
They spent the rest of the night in pleasant conversation, and when Militza wished to go away he begged her not to leave him.
Who acts: men, Militza · What happens: spend, wish, go away, beg, not leave · To what, where: rest, pleasant conversation, girl, Militza · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Militza), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spent | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 conversation | case |
| 9 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 conversation | amod |
| 10 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 begged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 begged | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wished | advmod |
| 14 | Militza | Militza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 begged | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wished | xcomp |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 begged | nsubj |
| 20 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spent | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 begged | obj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 leave | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 leave | mark |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 begged | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 leave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | men = man | the rest of the night | pleasant conversation | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Militza | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Militza not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | Militza | girl | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | Militza | vn keep-15.2 «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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