The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 82

Then she begged him to lend her the purse for a few days, so that she could have one made like it, and so great was the love he had for her that he gave it to her at once.

Who acts: princess, great love, Ciccu · What happens: beg, lend, have, make, be, give · To what, where: Ciccu, purse, princess, one, great love, love

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 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 (princess, great love, Ciccu), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 begged	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	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 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lend	mark
6	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lend	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 purse	det
9	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lend	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 days	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 days	amod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lend	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 have	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 have	obj
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 one	acl
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 great	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 great	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 great	advmod
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 love	amod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 love	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 love	det
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 gave	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	nsubj
37	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 had	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	obl
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 once	case
42	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 gave	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	princess		Ciccu	then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here	the purse	princess	day		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient purse=Theme
3	have	could	princess	one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	make	participle					like purse	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	is a	past		the great love				tree rules
6	have	past	the great love				for princess	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	give	past	Ciccu	love	princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient at once=Asset

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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