The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 5

So they sent off a messenger to the thicket, and begged so prettily that they might have the loan of her shovel-handle of which the sheriff had spoken that they were not refused; so now they had a trace-pin which would not snap in two.

Who acts: brother, trace pin · What happens: send off, beg, have, speak, not refuse, not snap · To what, where: messenger, thicket, loan, sheriff, brother, trace pin · 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, trace pin), 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	_	3 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 messenger	det
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 thicket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thicket	det
9	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 prettily	advmod
14	prettily	prettily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 begged	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 prettily	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 loan	det
20	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 handle	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 handle	nmod:poss
23	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 handle	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 shovel	punct
25	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 loan	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 spoken	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sheriff	det
29	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spoken	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 spoken	aux
31	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 handle	acl:relcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 refused	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 refused	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 refused	aux:pass
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 refused	advmod
36	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 spoken	advcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	41 had	advmod
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 had	advmod
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 pin	det
43	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pin	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 trace	punct
45	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 snap	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 snap	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 snap	advmod
49	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pin	acl:relcl
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 two	case
51	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 snap	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past	brother	a messenger	the thicket			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to thicket=Destination
2	beg speech: request	past	brother not said here				prettily property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	have	might	brother	the loan of three's shovel handle				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient
4	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the sheriff			of three's shovel handle	tree rules
5	not refuse	past · passive		brother				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	have	past	brother	a trace pin		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient
7	not snap	would	a trace pin		two			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location
8	loan			three's shovel handle				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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