The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 105

Dear ring, I beseech you, grant me a vision of my wife and my daughter!'

Who acts: Dear ring · What happens: beseech, grant · To what, where: you, vision, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear ring), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ring	amod
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beseech	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ring	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 beseech	nsubj
5	beseech	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 beseech	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grant	punct
8	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beseech	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 grant	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vision	det
11	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grant	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vision	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 daughter	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 beseech	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 beseech	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beseech	present	Dear ring	you					tree rules
2	grant	infinitive	Dear ring not said here	a vision of my wife and my daughter	me				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal vision=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: «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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