The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 40
When the year was over, she begged so hard for another year’s respite that it was granted to her.
Who acts: Princess, year · What happens: be, beg, grant, respite · To what, where: respite, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, year), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 begged | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 begged | nsubj |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 hard | advmod |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 begged | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 respite | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 respite | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 year | case |
| 15 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 granted | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 granted | aux:pass |
| 19 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 begged | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 granted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | year | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Princess | for another year's respite; hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for respite=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grant | past · passive | respite | Princess | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to she=Goal | ||||
| 4 | respite | another year | nom respite «state transitive»: poss=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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