The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
“Now give me the parrot,” implored Punchkin.
What happens: give, implore · To what, where: parrot, Magician, Punchkin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 implored | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parrot | det |
| 6 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 9 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 implored | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | the parrot | the Magician = magician | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient parrot=Theme | |||
| 2 | implore | past | Punchkin | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent punchkin=Recipient clause=Topic |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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