The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 26

When I was a child, and you begged me to tell you, I had to keep silence, or the Magyar king would have killed me.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, beg, tell, have, keep, kill · To what, where: child, me, you, silence, Magyar king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 child	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 child	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 child	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 begged	nsubj
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 child	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 killed	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 killed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
23	Magyar	Magyar	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 king	compound
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 killed	nsubj:pass
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 killed	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 killed	aux
27	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 keep	advcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 killed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a child		tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	you		me	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	past	I			tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	silence		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
6	kill	would · perfect · passive		the Magyar king		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result

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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