Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 39
Then I begged the owl to give me the recipe for this soup. '
Who acts: I · What happens: beg, give · To what, where: owl, recipe, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 begged | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 owl | det |
| 5 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 recipe | det |
| 10 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 soup | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 soup | det |
| 13 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | I | the owl | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent owl=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the recipe | me | for this soup | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient recipe=Theme for soup=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: «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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