The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 61

He begged her to listen quietly to him, and he reminded her of the day when he went away with the old woman, and of many things in his childhood, and told her how the fairy had bewitched him, and he had served her seven years.

Who acts: head · What happens: beg, listen, remind, go away, tell, bewitch · To what, where: mother, head, fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (head), 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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	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 begged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 listen	mark
5	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	xcomp
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 listen	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 listen	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reminded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reminded	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reminded	nsubj
12	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reminded	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reminded	obl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 went	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reminded	advcl
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 woman	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 things	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 things	cc
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 things	case
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 begged	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 childhood	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 childhood	nmod:poss
32	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 things	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 told	cc
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	parataxis
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 bewitched	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fairy	det
39	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bewitched	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bewitched	aux
41	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 told	ccomp
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 bewitched	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 served	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 served	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 served	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 served	aux
47	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 told	conj
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 served	obj
49	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 years	nummod
50	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 served	obl:unmarked
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	head		mother		of many things in head's childhood	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	head not said here		head		quietly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
3	remind speech: other	past	head		mother	day		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	go away	past	head				with the old woman; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with woman=Beneficiary
5	tell speech: assert	past			mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	bewitch	past · perfect · passive		the fairy				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
7	serve	past · perfect	head	mother		year		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute

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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