The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 81

At length he was free to do as he liked, and he had more invitations to play than he could manage to accept, and at night, when the citizens used to go and drink in the inn, the landlord always begged Tiidu to come and play to them.

Who acts: Tiidu, more invitations, citizens, landlord · What happens: be, do, like, have, play, manage · To what, where: length, more invitations, inn, landlord, Tiidu, citizens

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, more invitations, citizens, landlord), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 free	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 free	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 free	cop
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 free	xcomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 liked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 liked	nsubj
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 free	parataxis
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 invitations	amod
16	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 manage	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 manage	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 manage	aux
22	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 play	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 accept	mark
24	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 manage	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 night	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 night	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 begged	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 used	punct
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 used	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 citizens	det
32	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 used	nsubj
33	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 night	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 go	mark
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 used	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 drink	cc
37	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 go	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 inn	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 inn	det
40	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drink	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 landlord	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 landlord	det
43	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 begged	obl
44	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 begged	advmod
45	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 free	parataxis
46	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 begged	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 come	mark
48	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 begged	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 play	cc
50	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 come	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 them	case
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 play	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 free	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tiidu			length		free property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	past	Tiidu						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	have	past	Tiidu	more invitations					tree rules
5	play	to-infinitive	more invitations not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	manage	could	Tiidu						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	accept	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	use	past	the citizens						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	go	to-infinitive	the citizens not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	drink	infinitive	the citizens not said here			the inn			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	beg speech: request	past		the landlord	Tiidu		night	always property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tiidu=Recipient clause=Topic
12	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the landlord not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	play	infinitive	the landlord not said here		citizens = citizen				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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