Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 82

He begged her to be industrious, lest his parents should be angry and curse him.

Who acts: king, parents · What happens: beg, be, curse · To what, where: measure, king

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, parents), 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	_	6 industrious	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 industrious	cop
6	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 begged	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 angry	punct
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 angry	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 angry	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 angry	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 angry	cop
13	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 industrious	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 curse	cc
15	curse	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 curse	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	king		measure		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here			industrious property	tree rules
3	is	should	king's parents			angry property	tree rules
4	curse	present	king not said here	king			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

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