The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 69

She felt very anxious, and begged he would stay at home, adding: ‘Some mishap might so easily befall you,’ but he answered, ‘I must and will go.’

Who acts: bride, Meantime, mishap, I · What happens: feel, beg, stay, add, befall, answer · To what, where: home, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, Meantime, mishap, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 anxious	advmod
4	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begged	cc
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stay	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stay	aux
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 adding	punct
14	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stay	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 befall	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 befall	punct
17	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 mishap	det
18	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 befall	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 befall	aux
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 befall	advmod
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 befall	advmod
22	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 adding	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 befall	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 befall	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 befall	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 answered	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 go	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 go	cc
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 answered	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	bride			anxious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	beg speech: request	past	bride not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stay	would	Meantime		home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
4	add speech: assert	gerund	Meantime not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	befall	might	some mishap	you		easily property	tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	past	Meantime				tree rules
7	go	must · future	I				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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