The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 54

Now in the whole town there was only one red cloak, and that belonged to a man of whom nobody ever willingly asked a favour—Master Hammerling the hangman.

Who acts: whole town, that, nobody · What happens: be, belong, ask · To what, where: one red cloak, favour

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole town, that, nobody), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 town	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 town	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 town	amod
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cloak	nsubj
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cloak	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 cloak	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cloak	nummod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloak	amod
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 belonged	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 belonged	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 belonged	nsubj
15	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cloak	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belonged	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 man	nmod
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 asked	nsubj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 willingly	advmod
23	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	24 asked	advmod
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 favour	det
26	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	obj
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 Hammerling	punct
28	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Hammerling	compound
29	Hammerling	Hammerling	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cloak	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hangman	det
31	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Hammerling	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cloak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the whole town	one red cloak	Master Hammerling obl	tree rules
2	belong	past	that		to a man	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	nobody	a favour	willingly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=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 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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