The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 89

The man handed the arrow through the bars, but when he had done so he begged harder than ever that the prince would open the door and set him free.

Who acts: man, prince · What happens: hand, do, beg, open, set · To what, where: arrow, bars, door, prince

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, prince), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	nsubj
3	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 arrow	det
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 bars	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bars	det
8	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 handed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 begged	advcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 begged	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 handed	conj
18	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 begged	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 harder	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 open	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 prince	det
23	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 open	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 open	aux
25	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 open	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 set	cc
29	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 open	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	obj
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 set	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hand	past	the man	the arrow	the bars		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	man				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past	man			hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	open	would	the prince	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	set	infinitive	the prince not said here	prince		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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