The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 125

Now I beg one last favour of you; can your daughter, the Moon, tell me where my husband is?’

Who acts: I, husband · What happens: beg, tell, be, favour · To what, where: one last favour, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, husband), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 beg	advmod
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	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 favour	nummod
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 favour	amod
6	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beg	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 favour	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 daughter	aux
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beg	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Moon	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Moon	det
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 beg	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 is	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I	one last favour of you		now	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	present	my husband				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	favour			you			nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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