The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 170

Then he seized an iron rod and belabored the old man till he, whimpering, begged him to leave off, and he would give him great riches.

Who acts: man · What happens: seize, belabor, whimper, beg, leave off, give · To what, where: iron rod, old man, man, great riches, person

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seized	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rod	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rod	compound
6	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 belabored	cc
8	belabored	belabor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belabored	obj
12	till	till	ADP	_	13 he	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 belabored	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whimpering	punct
15	whimpering	whimper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 belabored	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 leave	mark
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	xcomp
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 leave	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 give	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seized	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 riches	amod
29	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	seize	past	man	a iron rod		then	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme
2	belabor	past	man not said here	the old man		till man	tree rules
3	whimper	gerund	man not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beg speech: request	past	man not said here		man		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	leave off not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	would	man	great riches	person		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rich=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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