The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 64

When he heard that, he lost no time in going to the door of their fine house and imploring them to give him food and shelter; but the only thing he got was hard words, and a command to beg elsewhere.

Who acts: man, time, only thing · What happens: hear, lose, go, implore, give, get · To what, where: that, door, brothers, food, man, only thing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, time, only thing), 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	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	advcl
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 going	mark
11	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 time	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 imploring	cc
20	imploring	implore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 going	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 imploring	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 imploring	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shelter	cc
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 food	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 words	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 words	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
31	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 words	nsubj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thing	acl:relcl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 words	cop
36	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 words	amod
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lost	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 command	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 command	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 command	det
41	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 words	appos
42	to	to	PART	_	43 beg	mark
43	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 command	acl
44	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	43 beg	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	man	that					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	lose	past	man				time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	gerund	no time not said here			the door of brothers's fine house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
4	implore	gerund	no time not said here	brothers = brother					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give	to-infinitive	no time not said here	food and shelter	man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
6	get	past	man	the only thing not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
7	is a	past	the only thing	hard words					tree rules
8	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	the only thing not said here					elsewhere property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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