Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 36
The Magician, greatly delighted, begged her to allow the wedding to take place as soon as possible.
Who acts: Magician, wedding · What happens: beg, allow, take · To what, where: Punchkin, wedding, place
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, wedding), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Magician | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Magician | punct |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 allow | mark |
| 10 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wedding | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 allow | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 allow | xcomp |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 take | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 possible | mark |
| 19 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soon | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Magician | Punchkin | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Magician not said here | the wedding | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer wedding=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wedding not said here | place | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/36/