The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 25

There he saw an old man, who begged Jack to give him something to eat.

Who acts: Jack, old man · What happens: see, beg, give, eat · To what, where: old man, Jack, something

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, old 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 begged	nsubj
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 give	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 something	acl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	Jack	a old man		there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	beg speech: request	past	a old man		Jack		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a old man not said here	something	Jack		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	a old man not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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