The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 49
The rope was being placed round his neck, when he begged to be allowed a few last words.
Who acts: servant · What happens: place, beg, allow · To what, where: rope, few last words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 begged | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begged | nsubj |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 allowed | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allowed | aux:pass |
| 15 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 begged | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 allowed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the rope | round servant's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | servant | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | a few last words | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: word=Beneficiary |
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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