Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 81

They begged and begged her to beat her drum once more, "just to see if the King will really come to see you this time."

Who acts: daughters, King · What happens: beg, beat, see, come · To what, where: gardener, drum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, King), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 begged	cc
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beat	mark
7	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 drum	nmod:poss
9	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 beat	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 beat	conj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	really	really	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 see	obj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	daughters = daughter				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	daughters = daughter not said here		gardener		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	beat not said to happen	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here	gardener's drum			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	the King				tree rules
6	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the King not said here	gardener		time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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