The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 39

As before, the flowers began to beg the young man to gather them.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: begin, beg, gather · To what, where: young man, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:1717): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 before	case
2	before	before	ADV	_	6 began	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beg	mark
8	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beg	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 gather	mark
13	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beg	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gather	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the flowers			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here		the young man	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	gather not said to happen	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here	flowers = flower		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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