The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 8

And she too begged them not to shoot her, and she would give each of them a cub.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: beg, not shoot, give · To what, where: princes, wolf, each

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf), 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 begged	advmod
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 shoot	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 shoot	mark
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shoot	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shoot	conj
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 give	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 each	nmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cub	det
19	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	wolf		princes = prince	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not shoot not said to happen	to-infinitive	wolf not said here	wolf		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	give	would	wolf	each		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient cub=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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