The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 160

Throwing himself down at the Princess’s feet, he implored her to stay, and at least speak to him, and she at last consented, but only because he seemed to wish it so very much.

Who acts: Featherhead · What happens: throw down, implore, stay, speak, consent, seem · To what, where: Featherhead, feet, Princess, least, best · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Featherhead), 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	Throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 implored	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Throwing	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Throwing	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 feet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 feet	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Princess	case
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Throwing	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 implored	nsubj
11	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 implored	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stay	mark
14	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 implored	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speak	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 speak	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 least	case
18	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 speak	obl
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stay	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speak	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 consented	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 consented	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 consented	nsubj:pass
25	at	at	SCONJ	_	27 consented	mark
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 consented	amod
27	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 implored	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 seemed	cc
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 seemed	advmod
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 seemed	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 implored	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wish	mark
35	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 seemed	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wish	obj
37	so	so	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADV	_	35 wish	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	throw down	gerund	Featherhead not said here	Featherhead		the Princess's feet	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
2	implore	past	Featherhead	Princess			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stay	to-infinitive	Featherhead not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	infinitive	Featherhead not said here		Featherhead	least	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
5	consent	participle · passive		Princess			tree rules
6	seem	past	Featherhead				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	wish	to-infinitive	Featherhead not said here	best = good			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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