The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 49

But one little feather they kept out, and told the young man that if the ogress missed it he was to thrust it up her nose.

Who acts: one little feather, ogress, man · What happens: keep out, tell, miss, be · To what, where: young man, breeze · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one little feather, ogress, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feather	nummod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feather	amod
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 kept	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 thrust	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 missed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ogress	det
17	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 missed	nsubj
18	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thrust	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 missed	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thrust	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thrust	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 thrust	mark
23	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thrust	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 thrust	compound:prt
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nose	nmod:poss
27	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thrust	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep out	past	one little feather				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	one little feather not said here		the young man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	miss a condition, not said to happen	past	the ogress	breeze			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is not said to happen	past	man			thrust property	tree rules

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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