The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 53

Then Grannonia knelt down before the fox, and begged him in her sweetest way to catch the birds for her and procure their blood, promising at the same time to reward him richly.

Who acts: Grannonia · What happens: kneel down, beg, catch, procure, promise, reward · To what, where: fox, sweetest way, birds, blood

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 knelt	advmod
2	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knelt	nsubj
3	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 knelt	compound:prt
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 fox	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knelt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knelt	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
14	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 catch	mark
17	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 catch	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 catch	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 procure	cc
23	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 catch	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 blood	nmod:poss
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 procure	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 promising	punct
27	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 begged	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 time	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 time	amod
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 promising	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 reward	mark
33	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 promising	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reward	obj
35	richly	richly	ADV	_	33 reward	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel down	past	Grannonia				before the fox; then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before fox=Location
2	beg speech: request	past	Grannonia not said here		fox	Grannonia's sweetest way			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	catch	to-infinitive	Grannonia not said here	the birds				for Grannonia	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bird=Theme for she=Beneficiary
4	procure	infinitive	Grannonia not said here	birds's blood					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	gerund	Grannonia not said here				time		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	reward	to-infinitive	Grannonia not said here		fox			richly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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