The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 46
He begged her to tell him who she was, but this she refused to do.
Who acts: Prince, this · What happens: beg, tell, refuse, not do · To what, where: Fickle, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, this), 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 | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 who | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 refused | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 refused | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 refused | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 refused | nsubj |
| 14 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 refused | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Prince | Fickle | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | refuse | past | this | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not do | to-infinitive | this not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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