The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 14

He entreated them to spare it, and to give it to him instead which they willingly did, and he went on his way, followed by the dog.

Who acts: father, shepherds · What happens: entreat, spare, give, do, go, follow · To what, where: shepherds, meadow, father, way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, shepherds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entreated	nsubj
2	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entreated	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spare	mark
5	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 entreated	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spare	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 give	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 give	mark
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 entreated	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	_	18 did	advmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 did	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
17	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	18 did	advmod
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 give	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entreated	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 followed	punct
27	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 way	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 dog	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dog	det
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 followed	obl:agent
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	father	shepherds = shepherd				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	spare	to-infinitive	father not said here	meadow				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Asset
3	give	to-infinitive	father not said here	meadow	father			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient
4	do	past	shepherds = shepherd				instead, willingly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
5	go	past	father			father's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
6	follow	participle		father's way not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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