The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 183

There was no beast, however fierce, that he was afraid of, till at last his father and mother begged him to give up the chase after the Nunda.

Who acts: beast, last father · What happens: be, beg, give up · To what, where: cat, chase

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, last father), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 beast	det
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fierce	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	7 fierce	advmod
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 afraid	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fierce	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 last	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 of	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 last	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 father	amod
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begged	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	xcomp
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 give	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chase	det
28	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 Nunda	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Nunda	det
31	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 give	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no beast			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	beast					afraid property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	beast's last father and mother		cat				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give up not said to happen	to-infinitive	beast's last father and mother not said here	the chase			after the Nunda		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Source

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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