The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 41

In his fourth journey he managed to find some that she would eat, and then she begged him to get her some water.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: manage, find, eat, beg, get, journey · To what, where: fourth journey, some, man, water

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 journey	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 journey	nmod:poss
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 journey	amod
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 managed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 managed	nsubj
6	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	xcomp
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 find	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 find	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begged	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 begged	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begged	nsubj
18	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 managed	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begged	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begged	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 water	nmod:poss
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	manage	past	man			man's fourth journey		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	find	to-infinitive	man not said here	some				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic
3	eat	would	wife					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beg speech: request	past	wife		man		then	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	get	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife's water				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
6	journey		man					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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