The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 32

They threw themselves at her feet and implored her forgiveness, which she granted freely, and promised at the same time that now their punishment was ended she would always befriend them.

Who acts: Sylvain, forgiveness, same time, Fairy · What happens: throw, implore, grant, promise, be, befriend · To what, where: Sylvain, feet, forgiveness

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain, forgiveness, same time, Fairy), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 implored	cc
8	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 forgiveness	nmod:poss
10	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 implored	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 granted	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 granted	nsubj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 granted	nsubj
14	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forgiveness	acl:relcl
15	freely	freely	ADV	_	14 granted	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 promised	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 promised	cc
18	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 promised	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 ended	nsubj
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 ended	advmod
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 punishment	nmod:poss
26	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ended	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ended	cop
28	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	acl:relcl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 befriend	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 befriend	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 befriend	advmod
32	befriend	befriend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ended	ccomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 befriend	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Sylvain	Sylvain	Fairy's feet			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination
2	implore	past	Sylvain not said here	Fairy's forgiveness				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient
3	grant	past	Fairy's forgiveness				freely property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	promise speech: promise	past	Sylvain not said here			time		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the same time			now	ended property	tree rules
6	befriend	would	Fairy	Sylvain			always property	tree rules
7	punish		Sylvain					nom punishment «act 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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