The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 26
It stopped underneath the gallows, and from it stepped the king of the Magyars, who begged that the life of the boy might be spared.
Who acts: noise, king · What happens: stop, step, beg, spare · To what, where: noise, life
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 5 gallows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gallows | det |
| 5 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stopped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stepped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stepped | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stepped | obl |
| 10 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begged | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Magyars | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Magyars | det |
| 15 | Magyars | Magyar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 king | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 begged | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 begged | nsubj |
| 18 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stepped | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 spared | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 life | det |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 boy | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 life | nmod |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 spared | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 spared | aux:pass |
| 27 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 begged | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | noise | underneath the gallows | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | step | past | noise not said here | noise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the king of the Magyars | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spare | might · passive | the life of the boy | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |
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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