The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 79

As was his custom, he stopped everybody whom he met in the streets that looked likely to want a shepherd and begged them to engage him, but they all seemed to have shepherds of their own, or else not to need any.

Who acts: Dragon, streets · What happens: be, stop, meet, look, want, beg · To what, where: everybody, streets, shepherd, Dragon, shepherds, any

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 (Dragon, streets), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 custom	case
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 custom	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 custom	nmod:poss
4	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 custom	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 stopped	obj
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 met	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 everybody	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 streets	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 streets	det
14	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 met	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 streets	acl:relcl
17	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looked	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 want	mark
19	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 likely	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shepherd	det
21	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 want	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 begged	cc
23	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 begged	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 engage	mark
26	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begged	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 engage	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seemed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 seemed	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seemed	nsubj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 seemed	advmod
32	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 have	mark
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seemed	xcomp
35	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 have	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 own	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 own	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shepherds	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 need	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 need	cc
41	else	else	ADV	_	44 need	advmod
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 need	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 need	mark
44	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seemed	conj
45	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	44 need	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past					as Dragon's custom	tree rules
2	stop	past	Dragon	everybody				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector everybody=Eventuality
3	meet	past	Dragon			the streets		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
4	look	past	the streets				likely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	want	to-infinitive	the streets not said here	a shepherd				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shepherd=Theme
6	beg speech: request	past	the streets not said here		streets = street			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	engage not said to happen	to-infinitive	the streets not said here	Dragon				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	seem	past	streets = street					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	have	to-infinitive	streets = street not said here	shepherds of streets's own				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient
10	not need	to-infinitive	streets = street not said here	any			else property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot any=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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