Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 13

He was very tired and hungry, and he begged the wood-cut-ter's wife to give him something to eat and a place to sleep in her hut.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, beg, give, eat, sleep · To what, where: wife, something, king, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hungry	cc
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tired	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	nsubj
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ter	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 wood	punct
14	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ter	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
16	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wife	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 ter	case
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 give	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 something	acl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 place	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 something	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sleep	mark
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 place	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hut	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hut	nmod:poss
32	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sleep	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	king				tired property	tree rules
2	be		king not said here					tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	king		the cut ter's wife			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive		something	king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive		something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	to-infinitive				wife's hut		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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