The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 22

When they got to the game course the fiddler handed the dwarf a knife and fork, and begged him to help himself first, and then to pass the dish on.

Who acts: rooms, fiddler · What happens: get, hand, beg, help, pass on · To what, where: knife, dwarf, fiddler, dish

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rooms, fiddler), 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	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 handed	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 course	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 course	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 course	compound
7	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fiddler	det
9	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handed	nsubj
10	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dwarf	det
12	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handed	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knife	det
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handed	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fork	cc
16	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knife	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 handed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	xcomp
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 help	obj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 help	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pass	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pass	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 pass	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pass	mark
29	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 handed	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dish	det
31	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pass	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	29 pass	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	rooms = room				to the game course result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to course=Result
2	hand	past	the fiddler	a knife and fork	the dwarf			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Destination knife=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	the fiddler not said here		fiddler			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fiddler not said here	fiddler			first property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
5	pass on	to-infinitive	the fiddler not said here	the dish		then		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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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