English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 9

The eldest brother of Burd Ellen was not to be put off, by any fear of danger, from attempting to get her back, so he begged the Warlock Merlin to tell him what he should do, and what he should not do, in going to seek his sister.

Who acts: Merlin · What happens: not put off, attempt, get, beg, tell, do · To what, where: eldest brother, back, Warlock Merlin, Merlin, sister, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Burd	case
5	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod
6	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Burd	flat
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 put	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 put	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 put	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	aux:pass
11	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fear	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 fear	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 fear	det
16	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 danger	case
18	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fear	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 attempting	punct
20	from	from	SCONJ	_	21 attempting	mark
21	attempting	attempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 put	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 attempting	xcomp
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 begged	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 begged	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 begged	nsubj
29	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 put	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Merlin	det
31	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Merlin	compound
32	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 begged	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 tell	mark
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begged	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tell	iobj
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 do	obj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 tell	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 do	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 do	cc
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 do	obj
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 do	nsubj
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 do	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 do	advmod
46	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 going	punct
48	in	in	SCONJ	_	49 going	mark
49	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 do	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 seek	mark
51	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 going	xcomp
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 sister	nmod:poss
53	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 seek	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not put off	past · passive		the eldest brother of Burd		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	attempt	gerund				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		Burd's back		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus
4	beg speech: request	past	Merlin		the Warlock Merlin	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent merlin=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Merlin not said here		Merlin	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do	should	Merlin			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	not do	should	Merlin			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	go	gerund	Merlin not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	seek	to-infinitive	Merlin not said here	Merlin's sister		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
10	fear			danger		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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