The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 46

I have not come to beg for money, but only to ask if you will give me those unfinished houses of yours in the city, and I will make them watertight, so that my wife and children can live in them, and that will save our rent.

Who acts: I, you, wife, that, our · What happens: not come, beg, ask, give, make, live · To what, where: unfinished houses, me, city, tears, rent

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, wife, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 beg	mark
6	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beg	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 ask	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 ask	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ask	mark
13	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 give	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ask	xcomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 houses	det
20	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 houses	amod
21	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 yours	case
23	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 houses	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 city	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 city	det
26	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ask	parataxis
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	watertight	watertight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 make	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 live	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 live	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 live	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 children	cc
40	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 wife	conj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 live	aux
42	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 make	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 live	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 save	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 save	cc
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 save	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 save	aux
49	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
50	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 rent	nmod:poss
51	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 save	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come	present	I					tree rules
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	I not said here				for money	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for money=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give a condition, not said to happen	future	you	that unfinished houses of yours	me	the city		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient house=Theme
5	make	future	I	tears = tear			watertight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
6	live	can	my wife and children				in tears = tear	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location
7	save	future	that	our rent				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Theme
8	rent		our					nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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