The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 70

They wandered on for some time, without knowing where they were going, till they met with a man whom they begged to give them shelter.

Who acts: people, man · What happens: wander on, know, go, meet, beg, give · To what, where: man, shelter, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 wandered	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knowing	punct
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 knowing	mark
9	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wandered	advcl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 going	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 knowing	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 met	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 man	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obl
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 begged	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 begged	nsubj
23	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begged	xcomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wander on	past	people			time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	gerund	people not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · progressive	people					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	people				with a man	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent
5	beg speech: request	past	people	a man				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic
6	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a man not said here	shelter	people			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient shelter=Theme

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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