Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 24

He begged his master to take a part of it; but Mr. Fitzwarren said, "No, it is all your own; and I feel sure that you will make good use of it."

Who acts: boy, Fitzwarren, part, you · What happens: beg, take, say, be, feel, make · To what, where: master, part, good use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Fitzwarren, part, you), 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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 master	nmod:poss
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 part	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
14	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 own	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 own	punct
18	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	24 own	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 No	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 own	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 own	cop
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 own	det:predet
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 feel	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 feel	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 feel	nsubj
28	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
29	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feel	xcomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 make	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 make	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 make	aux
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sure	ccomp
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 use	amod
35	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 make	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 use	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	boy	boy's master		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
2	take	to-infinitive	boy not said here	a part of part		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Fitzwarren Mr.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	part		own property	tree rules
5	feel in a quote	present	boy		sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	make in a quote	future	you	good use of part		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
7	use in a quote			part		nom use «act 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: «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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