Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 100

When the jailer came to bring his food, he begged the grim fellow to spare his little plant.

Who acts: jailer · What happens: come, bring, beg, spare · To what, where: food, grim fellow, little plant

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jailer), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jailer	det
3	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 begged	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 begged	nsubj
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
13	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 spare	mark
16	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fellow	acl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 plant	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 plant	amod
19	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spare	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	the jailer			tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive	the jailer not said here	jailer's food		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	jailer		the grim fellow	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fellow=Recipient
4	spare	to-infinitive	jailer not said here	jailer's little plant		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent plant=Asset

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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