The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

All I beg of you is to come with me, and, instead of hunting chickens and such things, I will make a good meal off cheese before I die.'

Who acts: I, All · What happens: beg, be, hunt, make, die · To what, where: chickens, good meal

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, All), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 come	nsubj
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	1 All	acl:relcl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 beg	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 come	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 make	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 hunting	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 make	advcl
17	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunting	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 things	cc
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chickens	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hunting	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 make	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 make	aux
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 meal	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meal	amod
27	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	29 cheese	case
29	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meal	nmod
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 die	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 die	nsubj
32	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 make	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I		of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	All		with me; come property	tree rules
3	hunt	gerund	I not said here	chickens and such things		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme
4	make	future	I	a good meal	off cheese	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product
5	die	present	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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