The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 5

After explaining their grief as well as he could, he ended by begging them to see the Princess for themselves.

Who acts: he · What happens: explain, end, beg, see · To what, where: grief, King, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 explaining	mark
2	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ended	advcl
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grief	nmod:poss
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explaining	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 explaining	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 well	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 explaining	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ended	nsubj
12	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 begging	mark
14	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ended	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begging	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begging	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 themselves	case
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 see	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	gerund	he not said here	King's grief		well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Topic
2	end	past	he				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	beg speech: request	gerund	he not said here		King		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	the Princess		for King	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=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: «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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