The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 49

'I beg you to return with me, and frighten the jackal into paying me what he owes me,' answered the sheep. '

Who acts: I, jackal · What happens: beg, return, frighten, pay, owe, answer · To what, where: you, jackal, me, sheep

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, jackal), 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 beg	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beg	nsubj
3	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 beg	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 return	mark
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beg	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 return	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frighten	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frighten	cc
11	frighten	frighten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 beg	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jackal	det
13	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frighten	obj
14	into	into	SCONJ	_	15 paying	mark
15	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 frighten	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 paying	obj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 owes	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 owes	nsubj
19	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 paying	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 owes	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct
23	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beg	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sheep	det
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 answered	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frighten	infinitive		the jackal			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jackal=Experiencer
4	pay	gerund		me			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset
5	owe	present	jackal		me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal what=Theme
6	answer speech: assert	past			the sheep		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sheep=Eventuality

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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