Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 31
The daughter, with tears in her eyes, will fling herself at my feet, and beg of me to receive her into my favour.
Who acts: daughter, my · What happens: fling, receive, favour · To what, where: daughter, feet, favour
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fling | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tears | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 tears | case |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 daughter | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tears | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 daughter | punct |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fling | aux |
| 11 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 fling | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fling | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beg | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beg | cc |
| 18 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fling | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 beg | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 receive | mark |
| 22 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fling | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 receive | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 favour | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 favour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 receive | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | future | the daughter and tears in daughter's eyes | daughter | my feet | beg of me obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination | ||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the daughter and tears in daughter's eyes not said here | daughter | my favour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | favour | my | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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