The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 91

The muleteer in despair appealed to the two horseman, who were carefully skirting the swamp at some distance off, but they paid no heed to his cries, and he began to talk cheerfully to his mule, hoping to keep up his spirits, declaring that if the poor beast would only have a little patience help was sure to come.

Who acts: two horseman, muleteer, poor beast, hoping · What happens: appeal, skirt off, pay, begin, talk, hope · To what, where: muleteer, swamp, heed, spirits, little patience help

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two horseman, muleteer, poor beast, hoping), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 muleteer	det
2	muleteer	muleteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 paid	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 despair	case
4	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 muleteer	nmod
5	appealed	appeal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 muleteer	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 horseman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horseman	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 horseman	nummod
9	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appealed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 skirting	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 skirting	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 skirting	aux
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	14 skirting	advmod
14	skirting	skirt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 horseman	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 swamp	det
16	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 skirting	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 distance	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 distance	det
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 skirting	obl
20	off	off	ADP	_	14 skirting	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 paid	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 paid	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 paid	nsubj
24	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 heed	det
26	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 paid	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 cries	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cries	nmod:poss
29	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 paid	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 began	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 paid	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 talk	mark
35	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	35 talk	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 mule	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mule	nmod:poss
39	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 talk	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hoping	punct
41	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	62 sure	csubj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 keep	mark
43	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 hoping	xcomp
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 keep	compound:prt
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 spirits	nmod:poss
46	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 keep	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 declaring	punct
48	declaring	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	62 sure	csubj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 have	mark
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 have	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 beast	det
52	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 beast	amod
53	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 have	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 have	aux
55	only	only	ADV	_	56 have	advmod
56	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 declaring	advcl
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 help	det
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 help	amod
59	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 help	compound
60	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 have	obj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 sure	cop
62	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 began	obl
63	to	to	PART	_	64 come	mark
64	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 sure	xcomp
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appeal	participle		the muleteer in despair not said here	to the two horseman	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to horseman=Experiencer
2	skirt off	past · progressive	the two horseman	the swamp	at some distance; carefully property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swamp=Co-Theme
3	pay	past	the muleteer in despair	no heed	to muleteer's cries	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
4	begin	past	muleteer			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	talk	to-infinitive	muleteer not said here		to muleteer's mule; cheerfully property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mule=Co-Agent
6	hope	gerund				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	keep up not said to happen	to-infinitive		mule's spirits		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme
8	declare speech: other	gerund				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	have a condition, not said to happen	would	the poor beast	a little patience help		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient
10	is	past	hoping		sure property	tree rules
11	come	to-infinitive	hoping not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	cry		muleteer			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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