The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 195

The young man did not laugh with them, but instead left the hut and went straight to the owner of the dog, whom he begged to lend him the animal just for one night.

Who acts: young man, man, owner · What happens: not laugh, leave, go, beg, lend · To what, where: hut, owner, animal, man

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 (young man, man, owner), 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:pg641:372): 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laugh	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laugh	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 laugh	advmod
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laugh	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 left	advmod
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laugh	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hut	det
14	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laugh	conj
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 owner	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 owner	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 owner	det
20	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 dog	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 owner	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 begged	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begged	nsubj
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 owner	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lend	mark
29	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begged	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lend	iobj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 animal	det
32	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lend	obj
33	just	just	ADV	_	36 night	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 night	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 night	nummod
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lend	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not laugh	past · do-support	the young man					with dogs = dog	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past	the young man not said here	the hut				instead property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
3	go	past	the young man not said here			the owner of the dog			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to owner=Initial_Location
4	beg speech: request	past	man	the owner of the dog					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic
5	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive	the owner of the dog not said here	the animal	man		night		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient animal=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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