The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 16

That was all very well; but the king had a little boy of ten years old who went to look at the hairy man also, and the man begged so hard to be set free that the boy took pity on him.

Who acts: That, king, little boy, man, boy · What happens: be, have, go, look, beg, take · To what, where: little boy, pity

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 (That, king, little boy, 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 well	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 well	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 old	obl:unmarked
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 boy	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 look	mark
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 man	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
26	also	also	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 begged	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 begged	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 begged	nsubj
31	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 hard	advmod
33	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 begged	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	36 set	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 set	cop
36	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 free	advcl
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hard	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 took	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boy	det
40	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	nsubj
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 free	advcl
42	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	That		all, well property	tree rules
2	have	past	the king	a little boy		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	go	past	a little boy			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive	a little boy not said here		at the hairy man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=Theme
5	beg speech: request	past	the man			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	is	to-infinitive	the man not said here		set property	tree rules
7	take	past	the boy	pity	on Man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on he=Destination

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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