The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 104

And the whale begged: ‘Think of me and say to the king: “The poor whale has been lying three years across the strait, and men and horses have nearly trampled his back into his ribs.

Who acts: whale, poor whale, men · What happens: beg, think, say, lie, trample · To what, where: king, strait, back, ribs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale, poor whale, men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 begged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Think	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Think	punct
7	Think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 Think	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Think	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 lying	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 lying	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 whale	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 whale	amod
19	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lying	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 lying	aux
22	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 begged	advcl
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 years	nummod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lying	obj
25	across	across	ADP	_	27 strait	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 strait	det
27	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lying	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 trampled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 trampled	cc
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 trampled	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 horses	cc
32	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 men	conj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 trampled	aux
34	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	35 trampled	advmod
35	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 begged	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 back	nmod:poss
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trampled	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 ribs	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 ribs	nmod:poss
40	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 trampled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the whale						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	infinitive						of me	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive			the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
4	lie in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	the poor whale			the strait	year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	trample in a quote	present · perfect	men and horses	man's back		man's ribs		nearly property	tree rules

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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