The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 37
Jenik did not reply, but begged him to invite all their relations and friends to a grand banquet.
Who acts: Jenik · What happens: not reply, beg, invite · To what, where: Jenik, relations
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), 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 | 4 reply | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reply | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 reply | advmod |
| 4 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 begged | cc |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reply | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 invite | mark |
| 10 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | xcomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 relations | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 relations | nmod:poss |
| 13 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 invite | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 friends | cc |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 relations | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 banquet | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 banquet | det |
| 18 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 banquet | amod |
| 19 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past · do-support | Jenik | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Jenik not said here | Jenik | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | invite not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jenik not said here | sons's relations and friends | to a grand banquet | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=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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