The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 28
But she was afraid of the stepmother, and begged the King to let her stay just one night more in the castle in the wood.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: be, beg, let, stay · To what, where: King, maiden, more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 afraid | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stepmother | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stepmother | det |
| 7 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afraid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begged | cc |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | ccomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 night | nummod |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 stay | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wood | det |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 castle | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maiden | of the stepmother; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | maiden not said here | the King | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | maiden not said here | more | night | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme more=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 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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