The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 49

But the young man begged to be heard, too, and said: ‘She came by night to question me, otherwise she never could have guessed it.’

Who acts: young man, Princess · What happens: beg, hear, say, come, question, not guess · To what, where: me, riddle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, Princess), 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	_	5 begged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begged	nsubj
5	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 heard	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 begged	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 too	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	8 heard	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begged	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 question	mark
21	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 question	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 guessed	punct
24	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	29 guessed	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 guessed	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 guessed	advmod
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 guessed	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 guessed	aux
29	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 guessed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	participle	the young man					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the young man not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
3	say speech: assert	past	the young man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	Princess			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	question speech: other	to-infinitive	Princess not said here		me			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	not guess	could · perfect	Princess	riddle			otherwise property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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