English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 18
He roared out with pain, and begged to be let out, promising never to steal again.
Who acts: boy · What happens: roar out, beg, let out, promise, not steal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 roared | compound:prt |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pain | case |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 roared | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 let | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | aux:pass |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 begged | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 let | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 promising | punct |
| 14 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 begged | advcl |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 steal | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 steal | mark |
| 17 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 promising | xcomp |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 steal | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar out | past | boy | with pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | boy not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let out not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» | ||||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | gerund | boy not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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