Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 124

I begged her to lend me a handful of herbs. '

Who acts: I · What happens: beg, lend · To what, where: schoolmaster, handful, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lend	mark
5	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lend	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 handful	det
8	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lend	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 herbs	case
10	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 handful	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	I		schoolmaster				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a handful of herbs	me				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient handful=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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