English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 94
He begged his master to take what part of it he pleased, since he owed it all to his kindness.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: beg, take, owe · To what, where: master, part, kindness
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 part | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleased | nsubj |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 part | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 owed | punct |
| 14 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 16 owed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 owed | nsubj |
| 16 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 owed | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 it | det |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 kindness | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Dick | Dick's master | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | what part of part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | owe | past | Dick | part | to Dick's kindness goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to kindness=Goal |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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