The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 160

The man next him begged him to relate all his latest doings, and amongst them he told the story of the Caliph and his Vizier.

Who acts: man · What happens: beg, relate, tell · To what, where: two, latest doings, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begged	nsubj
3	next	next	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod
5	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 relate	mark
8	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 doings	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 doings	nmod:poss
11	latest	late	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 doings	amod
12	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 relate	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
15	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begged	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Caliph	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Caliph	det
23	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 story	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Vizier	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 Vizier	nmod:poss
26	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Caliph	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the man next two		two		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	relate not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man next two not said here	man's latest doings			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doing=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	man	the story of the Caliph and man's Vizier		amongst doings = doing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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