The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Sheep, sentence 4

"Please fetch me a drink of water," he begged, "that might give me strength enough so I can get me some solid food."

Who acts: you, Wolf, that, I · What happens: fetch, beg, give, get · To what, where: Wolf, strength, me, solid food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Wolf, that, I), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct
2	Please	please	INTJ	_	3 fetch	discourse
3	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fetch	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 drink	det
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetch	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begged	nsubj
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetch	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 give	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fetch	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 strength	advmod
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 get	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 give	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	obj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 food	det
27	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 food	amod
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	fetch in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Wolf		tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	Wolf			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	give in a quote	might	that	strength	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient strength=Theme
4	get in a quote	can	I	some solid food	me	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary food=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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