The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 24

The puma greeted him with joy, and begged he might have some of the famous milk as soon as possible, for he was very thirsty.

Who acts: puma, noise · What happens: greet, beg, have, be · To what, where: noise, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma, noise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 puma	det
2	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 greeted	nsubj
3	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 greeted	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 greeted	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	3 greeted	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	ccomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 have	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 milk	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 milk	det
16	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 milk	amod
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 some	nmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 soon	advmod
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 have	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 possible	mark
21	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 soon	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thirsty	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 thirsty	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thirsty	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thirsty	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 thirsty	advmod
27	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 have	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 greeted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past	the puma		noise	with joy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	the puma not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	might	noise	some		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	is	past	noise			thirsty property	tree rules

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.

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