The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 105

When the shepherd was dragged to the dungeons he begged the guards to leave him alone a little while that he might look down into the pit of scythes; perhaps he might after all make up his mind to say “To your good health” to the king.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: drag, beg, leave, look down, make up, say · To what, where: shepherd, dungeons, guards, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dragged	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dragged	aux:pass
5	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 begged	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dungeons	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dungeons	det
8	dungeons	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dragged	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 begged	nsubj
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guards	det
12	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 begged	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	ccomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 leave	obj
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 leave	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leave	obl:unmarked
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 look	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 look	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 look	aux
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leave	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 pit	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pit	det
27	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 scythes	case
29	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pit	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 make	punct
31	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	33 might	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 might	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 make	aux
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 might	obl
36	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 begged	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 make	compound:prt
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mind	nmod:poss
39	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 say	mark
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 make	advcl
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	46 health	punct
43	To	to	ADP	_	46 health	case
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 health	nmod:poss
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 health	amod
46	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 say	ccomp
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	46 health	punct
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 king	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 king	det
50	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 health	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past · passive		the shepherd	the dungeons		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to dungeon=Destination
2	beg speech: request	past	shepherd	the guards			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic
3	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive		shepherd		a little obl:unmarked; alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	look down	might	shepherd			into the pit of scythes; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into pit=Theme
5	make up	might	shepherd not said here	shepherd's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	mind		shepherd				nom mind «cognition 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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