The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 81
His father entreated him, ‘Stay at home.
Who acts: father · What happens: entreat, stay · To what, where: brother, home
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 (father), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entreated | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stay | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stay | punct |
| 7 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entreated | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Stay | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | brother's father | brother | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | brother's father not said here | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
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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