The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 16

She entreated me to tell you what had happened, and to beg you, in pity, to give her beauty back to her.

Who acts: Sylvia · What happens: entreat, tell, happen, beg, give · To what, where: me, you, pity, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entreated	nsubj
2	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 entreated	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 entreated	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happened	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	aux
9	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beg	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beg	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 beg	mark
13	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 entreated	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 beg	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pity	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 pity	case
17	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beg	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 beg	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 beauty	nmod:poss
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	20 give	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 back	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	entreat	past	Sylvia		me		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Sylvia not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive			you	pity	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	give	to-infinitive		Sylvia's beauty			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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