The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 3

‘Oh, do give me one, I am so fond of figs,’ begged the little man.

Who acts: I · What happens: give, be, beg · To what, where: one, me, little man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fond	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fond	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fond	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fond	advmod
12	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 give	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 figs	case
14	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fond	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive · do-support		one	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme
2	is	present	I			of figs; fond property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past			the little man		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=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 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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