The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 88
I have come to beg you to lend me a black horse, with eyes, a mouth, ears, bridle and saddle.’
Who acts: I · What happens: come, beg, lend · To what, where: you, black horse, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 beg | mark |
| 5 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lend | mark |
| 8 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beg | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lend | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lend | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lend | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mouth | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mouth | det |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ears | punct |
| 20 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mouth | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bridle | punct |
| 22 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saddle | cc |
| 24 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bridle | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lend not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a black horse | me | with eyes and a mouth and ears and bridle and saddle | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=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 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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