The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 28

‘Don’t drown him, sell him to me instead,’ begged Martin.

What happens: not drown, sell, beg · To what, where: peasant, Martin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 drown	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 drown	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 drown	advmod
4	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drown	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sell	punct
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drown	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sell	iobj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sell	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 sell	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drown	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 drown	punct
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 begged	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not drown	infinitive · do-support	peasant			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	sell	infinitive		peasant	to me; instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient
3	beg speech: request	past		Martin		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent martin=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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