The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 8

He was tall and handsome and, though he professed to make shoes, his manners were good and modest, and he bowed low as he begged the king not only to allow him to take the measure of his foot, but also to suffer him to place a healing plaster over the wound.

Who acts: youth, manners · What happens: be, profess, make, bow, beg, not allow · To what, where: shoes, king, youth, measure, wound, foot

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, manners), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 handsome	cc
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tall	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 professed	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 professed	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 professed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 professed	nsubj
10	professed	profess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 professed	xcomp
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 manners	nmod:poss
16	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 good	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 make	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 modest	cc
20	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 good	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bowed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bowed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bowed	nsubj
24	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	conj
25	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bowed	xcomp
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 begged	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 begged	nsubj
28	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bowed	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begged	obj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 allow	advmod
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 allow	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 allow	mark
34	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 begged	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 allow	iobj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 allow	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 measure	det
39	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 foot	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 foot	nmod:poss
42	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 measure	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 suffer	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 suffer	cc
45	also	also	ADV	_	47 suffer	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 suffer	mark
47	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tall	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 suffer	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 place	mark
50	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 suffer	xcomp
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 plaster	det
52	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 plaster	compound
53	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 suffer	obl:unmarked
54	over	over	ADP	_	56 wound	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 wound	det
56	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 suffer	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	youth				tall property	tree rules
2	be		youth not said here					tree rules
3	profess	past	youth					vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	youth not said here	shoes				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product
5	is	past	youth's manners				good property	tree rules
6	be		youth's manners not said here					tree rules
7	bow	past	youth				low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	beg speech: request	past	youth		the king			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
9	not allow	to-infinitive	youth not said here		youth			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
10	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	youth not said here	the measure of youth's foot				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
11	suffer	to-infinitive	youth not said here	youth		the wound	a healing plaster obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
12	measure			youth's foot				nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

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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