The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 7

When they had tried all their little dogs, the youngest son handed his father the hazel-nut, with a modest bow, and begged him to crack it carefully.

Who acts: sons, youngest son · What happens: try, hand, beg, crack · To what, where: little dogs, hazel nut, father, Prince, nut

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, youngest son), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tried	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	aux
4	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dogs	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dogs	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dogs	amod
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handed	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 son	amod
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handed	nsubj
13	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dogs	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handed	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nut	det
17	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nut	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hazel	punct
19	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bow	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 bow	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bow	det
23	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bow	amod
24	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 begged	cc
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 handed	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begged	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 crack	mark
30	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begged	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 crack	obj
32	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	30 crack	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect	sons = son	sons's little dogs			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality
2	hand	past	the youngest son	the hazel nut	Prince's father	with a modest bow	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Destination nut=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	the youngest son not said here		Prince		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	crack not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youngest son not said here	nut		carefully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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