English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 17

But he begged, and he begged, till at last the good queen let him go, and gave him his father's good brand that never struck in vain.

Who acts: Merlin, good queen, father · What happens: beg, let, go, give, not strike, brand · To what, where: Merlin, last, good brand, vain

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merlin, good queen, 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	_	3 begged	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begged	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 let	mark
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 let	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 queen	amod
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	nsubj
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brand	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 father	case
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brand	amod
26	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 struck	obj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 struck	advmod
29	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 brand	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 vain	case
31	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 struck	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Merlin				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	Merlin				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive	the good queen	Merlin		last	tree rules
4	go	infinitive	Merlin not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	Merlin not said here	Merlin's father's good brand	Merlin		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient brand=Theme
6	not strike	past		Merlin's father's good brand		vain	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
7	brand		Merlin's father				nom brand «communication 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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