The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 51

I only beg you, for pity’s sake, to give me something to eat.”

Who acts: I · What happens: beg, give, eat · To what, where: you, something, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beg	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 beg	advmod
3	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 beg	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sake	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 sake	case
7	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sake	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 pity	case
9	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beg	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 beg	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 give	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 something	acl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I		you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	something	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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