The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 58

But when Mannikin perceived his intention, he begged permission to speak first, and told his whole story, even to the fact that he believed himself to be a peasant’s son.

Who acts: Mannikin · What happens: perceive, beg, speak, tell, believe, be · To what, where: intention, permission, whole story, fact, Mannikin, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannikin), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 perceived	advmod
3	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 begged	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 intention	nmod:poss
6	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	nsubj
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 speak	mark
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 permission	acl
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 speak	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 begged	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 story	nmod:poss
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fact	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 fact	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 fact	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fact	det
24	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 believed	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 believed	nsubj
27	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fact	acl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 believed	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	34 son	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 son	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 peasant	det
32	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 peasant	case
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 believed	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Mannikin	Mannikin's intention			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer intention=Stimulus
2	beg speech: request	past	Mannikin	permission			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here	permission not said here		first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Mannikin not said here	Mannikin's whole story	the fact		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to fact=Recipient
5	believe	past	Mannikin	Mannikin			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
6	is a	to-infinitive		a peasant's son			tree rules
7	intend		Mannikin				nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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