The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 7

But the Prince begged and implored so long, that at last his father consented to let him go, and furnished him with gold and silver as he had done his brothers.

Who acts: Prince, father · What happens: beg, implore, consent, let, go, furnish · To what, where: that, last, father, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 begged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 implored	cc
6	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 implored	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 begged	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 begged	obl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 consented	nsubj
15	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 let	mark
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 consented	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 furnished	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 furnished	cc
22	furnished	furnish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 furnished	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 gold	case
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 furnished	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 silver	cc
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gold	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 done	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 furnished	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brothers	nmod:poss
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 done	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the Prince	that		last		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	implore	past	the Prince not said here				long property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	consent	past	king's father					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	let	to-infinitive	king's father not said here	father				tree rules
5	go	infinitive	father not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	furnish	past	the Prince not said here		father		with gold and silver	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with gold=Theme
7	do	past · perfect	father	father's brothers				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality

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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