The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 67

Then he begged the old King to place a watch of four men just outside his bedroom door, and to desire them to make a big fire.

Who acts: harm · What happens: beg, desire, make · To what, where: watch, old King, arms, big fire

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm), 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 begged	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 King	amod
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 place	mark
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 watch	det
10	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 men	case
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 men	nummod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watch	nmod
14	just	just	ADV	_	18 door	advmod
15	outside	outside	ADP	_	18 door	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 door	nmod:poss
17	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	compound
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 desire	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 desire	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 desire	mark
22	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 desire	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 desire	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fire	det
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fire	amod
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	harm	a watch of four men	the old King	then	outside harm's bedroom door	tree rules
2	desire	to-infinitive	harm not said here	arms = arm				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	harm not said here	a big fire				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

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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