The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 27
Beg the king to give you fifty gold pieces and leave to ride me, and the rest will be easy.’
Who acts: you, rest · What happens: beg, give, leave, ride, be · To what, where: king, fifty gold pieces, you, me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rest), 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 | Beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beg | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Beg | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | compound |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leave | cc |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ride | mark |
| 13 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ride | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 easy | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 easy | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 easy | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 easy | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 easy | cop |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Beg | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beg | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | imperative | you not said here | the king | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | fifty gold pieces | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | present | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | future | the rest | easy property | tree rules |
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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