The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 58

So the sheriff had to stand there the whole night and pour red-hot coals over himself, and, no matter how much he cried and begged and entreated, the red-hot coals did not grow the colder for that.

Who acts: sheriff, hot coals · What happens: have, stand, pour, cry, beg, entreat · To what, where: hot coals, matter

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheriff, hot coals), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheriff	det
3	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stand	mark
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stand	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pour	cc
12	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hot	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coals	amod
16	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pour	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 pour	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cried	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 matter	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	obl:unmarked
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 matter	amod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cried	nsubj
27	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begged	cc
29	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cried	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 entreated	cc
31	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cried	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 grow	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 coals	det
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hot	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 red	punct
36	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 coals	amod
37	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 grow	nsubj
38	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 grow	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 grow	advmod
40	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 entreated	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 colder	det
42	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 grow	xcomp
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 that	case
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 colder	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the sheriff					tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive	the sheriff not said here		there	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pour	present	the sheriff not said here	hot coals			over sheriff	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Patient
4	cry speech: express	past	sheriff	no matter				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	past	sheriff not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	entreat	past	sheriff not said here					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	not grow	past · do-support	the hot coals				cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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