More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 83

And he went to another house and begged a bit of cheese crud, and when he went back he wanted to give half of it to the bull-calf. "

Who acts: father · What happens: go, beg, go back, want, give · To what, where: house, bit, half, bull calf

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 begged	cc
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begged	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 crud	case
12	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crud	compound
13	crud	crud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wanted	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 went	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wanted	advcl
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 give	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 half	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 calf	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 calf	det
29	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 calf	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 bull	punct
31	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	father			another house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	beg speech: request	past	father not said here	a bit of cheese crud			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bit=Recipient
3	go back	past	father				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	want	past	father				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	half of half	the bull calf		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to calf=Recipient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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