More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 43

Whereon the man laid hold of him and beat him, bidding him say:

Who acts: man · What happens: lay, beat, bid, say, hold · To what, where: hold, man, sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. 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	Whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	4 laid	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	nsubj
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beat	cc
9	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laid	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 beat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bidding	punct
12	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laid	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bidding	obj
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 bidding	xcomp
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the man	hold of sheep	whereon property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
2	beat	infinitive	the man not said here	man		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
3	bid	gerund	the man not said here	man		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	the man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	hold			sheep		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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