The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 33

The old man begged him hard to stay, but he would not, so his hairy friend gave him a golden apple out of which came a horse with a golden mane, and a golden staff with which to guide the horse.

Who acts: old man, hairy friend · What happens: beg, stay, give, come, guide · To what, where: boy, golden apple, Man, horse

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 (old man, hairy friend), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 begged	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 would	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 would	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 would	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	ccomp
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 would	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 gave	advmod
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friend	nmod:poss
17	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 friend	amod
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 apple	det
22	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 apple	amod
23	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 came	mark
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gave	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 mane	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mane	det
32	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mane	amod
33	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 staff	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 staff	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 staff	det
37	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 staff	amod
38	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	parataxis
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 guide	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 guide	mark
42	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 staff	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 horse	det
44	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 guide	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the old man		boy	hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	stay	to-infinitive	the old man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	Man's hairy friend	a golden apple	Man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient apple=Theme
4	come	past				with a golden mane	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	guide	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the horse		with a golden staff	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

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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