The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 14

The prince, however, begged her so hard to leave him a little of the fruit that the maiden gave him two apples, one for himself and one for his father.

Who acts: prince, maiden · What happens: beg, leave, give · To what, where: maiden, prince, two apples

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, maiden), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 prince	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 begged	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 begged	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 begged	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 leave	mark
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 begged	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leave	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fruit	obl:unmarked
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fruit	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fruit	det
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leave	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 gave	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maiden	det
20	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 leave	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 apples	nummod
24	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 apples	appos
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 one	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 one	cc
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 one	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 father	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 one	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the prince		maiden	hard, however property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	leave	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	prince			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme fruit=Attribute
3	give	past	the maiden	two apples	prince		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient apple=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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