The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 55

It cost Master Peter many struggles before he could bring himself to visit such a person, but there was no help for it, and, little as he liked it, he ended by making his request to the hangman, who was flattered that so respectable a man as Peter should borrow his robe of office, and willingly lent it to him.

Who acts: town, Peter, help · What happens: cost, bring, visit, be, like, end · To what, where: Master Peter, Peter, person, town, request, hangman

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 (town, Peter, help), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cost	nsubj
2	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Peter	compound
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cost	obj
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 struggles	amod
6	struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cost	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 bring	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bring	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	aux
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cost	advcl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 bring	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 visit	mark
13	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bring	xcomp
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 person	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 visit	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 was	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cost	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 help	det
22	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 help	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 little	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 little	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 little	punct
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cost	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 liked	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 liked	nsubj
31	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 little	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 liked	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ended	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ended	nsubj
35	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cost	parataxis
36	by	by	SCONJ	_	37 making	mark
37	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 respectable	csubj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 request	nmod:poss
39	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 making	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 hangman	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hangman	det
42	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 making	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 flattered	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 flattered	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 flattered	aux:pass
46	flattered	flatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 hangman	acl:relcl
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 respectable	nsubj
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 respectable	advmod
49	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ended	ccomp
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 man	det
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 respectable	nsubj
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 borrow	mark
53	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 borrow	nsubj
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 borrow	aux
55	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 respectable	advcl
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 robe	nmod:poss
57	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 borrow	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 office	case
59	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 robe	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 lent	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 lent	cc
62	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	63 lent	advmod
63	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cost	conj
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 lent	obj
65	to	to	ADP	_	66 him	case
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 lent	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cost	past	town		Master Peter			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme peter=Beneficiary struggle=Value
2	bring	could	Peter	Peter				tree rules
3	visit	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	such person				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent
4	be	past	no help for town			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	like	past	Peter	town				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	end	past	Peter					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	make	gerund		Peter's request			to the hangman	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product
8	flatter	past · passive		the hangman				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
9	borrow	should	Peter	Peter's robe of office				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
10	lend	past	town not said here	town	Peter		willingly property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient
11	request		Peter					nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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