The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 35

But still he went on, as fast as the strength of his horse would let him, begging his way.

Who acts: man, strength · What happens: go on, let, beg · To what, where: man, way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, strength), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fast	punct
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 went	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 let	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strength	det
11	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horse	nmod:poss
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strength	nmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fast	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begging	punct
19	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 let	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begging	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	man		still	fast property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	would	the strength of man's horse	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	beg speech: request	gerund	the strength of man's horse not said here	man's way			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent way=Recipient

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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