The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 81
The fairy gave a cry, and begged him to give her back her rose, but he would not.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: give, beg, give back · To what, where: cry, youth, rose, light
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), 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 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 begged | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 begged | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | back | back | ADP | _ | 11 give | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 would | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 would | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 would | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | iobj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 would | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the fairy | a cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent would=Recipient cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the fairy not said here | youth | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | light's rose | light | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rose=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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