The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 35

Jenik went to look for his father, and said to him: ‘You offered me no feast of welcome, but permit me to give one to you, and come and let me show you my plate.’

Who acts: Jenik, You, me · What happens: go, look, say, offer, permit, give · To what, where: Jenik, feast, me, one, you, plate · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jenik, You, me), 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	Jenik	Jenik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 offered	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 offered	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 offered	nsubj
16	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 offered	iobj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 feast	det
19	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 offered	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 welcome	case
21	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feast	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 permit	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 permit	cc
24	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 offered	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 permit	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 give	mark
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 permit	xcomp
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 give	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 one	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 permit	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 let	cc
35	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 come	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 let	obj
37	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 let	xcomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 show	iobj
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 plate	nmod:poss
40	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 show	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jenik				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	to-infinitive	Jenik not said here			for Jenik's father	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for father=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past			Jenik		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	offer	past	You	no feast of welcome	me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal feast=Theme
5	permit	infinitive	You not said here	me			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here	one	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to you=Recipient
7	come	infinitive	You not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	let	infinitive	You not said here	me			tree rules
9	show	infinitive	me not said here	my plate	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient plate=Topic

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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