The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 14

They all thought that it was ridiculous to be drawn to church by a calf, but there was nothing else for it but to send a messenger once more, and beg as prettily as they could, on behalf of the King, that she would let them have the loan of the calf that the bailiff had told them about.

Who acts: brother, coach, calf, nothing, bailiff · What happens: think, be, draw, send, beg, let · To what, where: church, messenger, behalf, brother, loan, bailiff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, coach, calf, nothing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 thought	advmod
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 ridiculous	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ridiculous	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ridiculous	cop
7	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	10 drawn	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 drawn	aux:pass
10	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ridiculous	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 church	case
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawn	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 calf	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 calf	det
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawn	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 was	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 was	nsubj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 nothing	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 nothing	nmod
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 send	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 send	mark
26	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 messenger	det
28	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 send	obj
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 send	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beg	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 beg	cc
33	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 prettily	advmod
35	prettily	prettily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beg	xcomp
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 could	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 could	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 prettily	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 behalf	punct
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 behalf	case
41	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beg	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 King	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 King	det
44	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 behalf	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 let	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 let	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 let	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 let	aux
49	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 beg	conj
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 let	obj
51	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 let	xcomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 loan	det
53	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 have	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 calf	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 calf	det
56	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 loan	nmod
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 told	mark
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 bailiff	det
59	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 told	nsubj:pass
60	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 told	aux
61	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 calf	acl:relcl
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 told	iobj
63	about	about	ADV	_	61 told	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	brother					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	coach				ridiculous property	tree rules
3	draw	to-infinitive · passive	a calf			church		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to church=Destination
4	be	past	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send	to-infinitive	brother not said here	a messenger				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
6	beg speech: request	present				behalf of the King	prettily property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
7	let	would	bailiff	brother				tree rules
8	have	infinitive	brother not said here	the loan of the calf				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient
9	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the calf not said here	the bailiff	brother		about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Topic
10	loan			the calf				nom loan «possession 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 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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