The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 8
He too met the little old grey man, who begged him for a morsel of cake and a draught of wine.
Who acts: youngest, little old grey man · What happens: meet, beg · To what, where: little old grey man, youngest
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, little old grey man), 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 | 3 met | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 met | advmod |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 begged | nsubj |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 begged | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 morsel | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 morsel | det |
| 15 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cake | case |
| 17 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 morsel | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 draught | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 draught | det |
| 20 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 morsel | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wine | case |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 draught | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | youngest = young | the little old grey man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the little old grey man | youngest = young | for a morsel of cake and a draught of wine | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient for morsel=Topic |
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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