The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 17

The young man at once broke off some of the bread, begging the old man to sit down beside him, and treating him as if he was an old friend.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: break off, beg, sit down, treat, be · To what, where: some, old man, man, old friend

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 broke	obl
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 broke	compound:prt
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 broke	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bread	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bread	det
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 some	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begging	punct
13	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 broke	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begging	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sit	mark
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begging	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sit	compound:prt
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sit	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 treating	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 treating	cc
24	treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 broke	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 treating	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 friend	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 friend	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 friend	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 friend	cop
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 friend	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friend	amod
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 treating	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	break off	past	the young man	some			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Patient
2	beg speech: request	gerund	the young man not said here		the old man		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	sit down	to-infinitive	the young man not said here			beside man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
4	treat	gerund	the young man not said here		man		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is a	past	man	a old friend			tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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