The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 6

On his road, he also met the two old beggars, who prayed for a little of his bread and milk, but this young man had never been taught to help other people, and had made it a rule through his life to keep all he had to himself.

Who acts: man, two old beggars, young man · What happens: meet, pray, not teach, help, make, keep · To what, where: two old beggars, road, young man, other people, milk, all

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 (man, two old beggars, young 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 road	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 road	nmod:poss
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 road	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 met	advmod
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beggars	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 beggars	nummod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beggars	amod
11	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 met	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prayed	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 prayed	nsubj
14	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beggars	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 little	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 prayed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 bread	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bread	nmod:poss
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 little	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 milk	cc
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bread	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taught	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 taught	cc
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 man	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taught	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taught	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 taught	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 taught	aux:pass
31	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 prayed	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 help	mark
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 taught	xcomp
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 help	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 made	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 made	cc
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 made	aux
39	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 met	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 made	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 rule	det
42	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 made	obj
43	through	through	ADP	_	45 life	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 life	nmod:poss
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rule	nmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 keep	mark
47	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 made	advcl
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 keep	obj
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 all	acl:relcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 himself	case
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 had	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	man	the two old beggars		man's road		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Co-Agent
2	pray	past	the two old beggars				for a little	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for little=Theme
3	not teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		this young man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	help	to-infinitive	this young man not said here		other people			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary
5	make	past · perfect	man not said here	milk				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary rule=Product
6	keep	to-infinitive	man not said here	all				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
7	have	past	man		man			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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