The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 191

The gazelle begged them hard to stay, but finding they would not, it brought many gifts, and gave some to the ladies and some to their slaves.

Who acts: gazelle, rich · What happens: beg, stay, find, bring, give · To what, where: people, many gifts, some, ladies

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gazelle, rich), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gazelle	det
2	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 begged	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
10	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 brought	advcl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 would	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 finding	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 would	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finding	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gifts	amod
18	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 gave	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 ladies	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ladies	det
25	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gave	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 some	cc
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 ladies	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 slaves	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 slaves	nmod:poss
30	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 some	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the gazelle		people	hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	stay	to-infinitive	the gazelle not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	would	rich not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past	rich	many gifts			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
5	give	past	the gazelle not said here	some	the ladies		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to lady=Recipient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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