The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 36

He gave two to the merchant, and begged him to take the rest to the princess of Khaistan, who was clearly the fittest person to possess such beautiful animals.

Who acts: man, princess · What happens: give, beg, take, be, possess · To what, where: two, merchant, man, rest, princess, fittest person

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 merchant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Khaistan	case
19	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 princess	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 person	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 person	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 person	cop
23	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	26 person	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
25	fittest	fit	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 person	amod
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 princess	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 possess	mark
28	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 person	acl
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 possess	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	man	two	the merchant		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent two=Theme to merchant=Recipient
2	beg speech: request	past	man not said here		man		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	the rest	the princess of Khaistan and the fittest person		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to princess=Destination
4	is a	past	the princess of Khaistan and the fittest person	the fittest person		clearly property	tree rules
5	possess	to-infinitive	man not said here	such beautiful animals			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot animal=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/36/