The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 82

After dinner the lady said kindly to Elsa, ‘Kisika has begged me to let you stay with her, and you have told her you would like to live here.

Who acts: lady, Kisika, you · What happens: say, beg, let, stay, tell, like · To what, where: Elsa, me, you, lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Kisika, you), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 dinner	case
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Elsa	case
8	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
11	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 begged	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 begged	aux
13	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 begged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 told	aux
25	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 like	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 like	aux
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 live	mark
31	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 like	xcomp
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 live	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the lady		Elsa		after dinner	kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to elsa=Recipient
2	beg speech: request	present · perfect	Kisika		me				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	let	to-infinitive	Kisika not said here	you					tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	you not said here					with lady	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location
5	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		you	lady				tree rules
6	like	would	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			here			vn exist-47.1-1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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