The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 23

The servant, however, declined everything, and only begged for a horse and some money to enable him to travel, as he was anxious to see something of the world.

Who acts: servant, haste · What happens: decline, beg, enable, travel, be, see · To what, where: everything, haste, something

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, haste), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declined	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 servant	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 declined	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 declined	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 begged	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 begged	advmod
11	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 declined	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 money	cc
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 money	det
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 enable	mark
19	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begged	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 enable	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 travel	mark
22	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 enable	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 anxious	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 anxious	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 anxious	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 anxious	cop
27	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 travel	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 anxious	xcomp
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 see	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 something	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 declined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decline	past	the servant	everything	however property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	beg speech: request	participle	the servant not said here		for a horse and some money	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for horse=Topic
3	enable	to-infinitive	the servant not said here	haste		tree rules
4	travel	to-infinitive	haste not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	haste		anxious property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	haste not said here	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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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