The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 3

Now, the King had some quarrelsome neighbors, who, tired of leaving him in peace, began to make war upon him so fiercely that he feared he would be altogether beaten if he did not make an effort to defend himself.

Who acts: King · What happens: have, leave, begin, make, fear, beat · To what, where: quarrelsome neighbors, king, peace, war, effort · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 neighbors	det
7	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 neighbors	amod
8	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 tired	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 neighbors	parataxis
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 leaving	mark
14	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tired	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 leaving	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 peace	case
17	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaving	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	obl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 fiercely	advmod
26	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	21 make	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 feared	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 feared	nsubj
29	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fiercely	advcl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 beaten	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 beaten	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 beaten	aux:pass
33	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	34 beaten	advmod
34	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 feared	ccomp
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 make	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 make	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 make	advmod
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 beaten	advcl
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 effort	det
41	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 defend	mark
43	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 effort	acl
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 defend	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King	some quarrelsome neighbors		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Patient
2	leave	gerund	the King not said here	king	peace			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in peace=Location
3	begin	past	the King not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive	the King not said here	war			upon king; fiercely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
5	fear	past	king					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	beat	would · passive		king			altogether property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	not make a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	king	a effort				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product
8	defend	to-infinitive	king not said here	king				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary

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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