The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 20

In vain he begged and prayed them to let him in; though his entreaties might have melted hearts of stone they did not move the guards of the palace, and at last, quite broken-hearted, he fell dead at their feet.

Who acts: face, Sheep · What happens: beg, pray, let in, melt, not move, break · To what, where: melted hearts, vain, Sheep, face, entreaties, guards

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (face, Sheep), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 prayed	cc
6	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prayed	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prayed	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	9 let	compound:prt
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hearts	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 hearts	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 entreaties	nmod:poss
15	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 melted	nsubj:pass
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 melted	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 melted	aux
18	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hearts	amod
19	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 stone	case
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 move	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 move	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 move	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 move	advmod
25	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hearts	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 guards	det
27	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 move	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 palace	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 palace	det
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guards	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fell	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fell	cc
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 last	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 last	punct
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 broken	advmod
37	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 last	advcl
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 broken	punct
39	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 broken	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 last	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fell	nsubj
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	xcomp
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 feet	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 feet	nmod:poss
46	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fell	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	face	melted hearts	vain		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past	face not said here	Sheep			tree rules
3	let in	to-infinitive	face not said here	face			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	melt	might · perfect · passive		face's entreaties			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
5	not move	past · do-support	Sheep	the guards of the palace		of stone	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent guard=Theme of stone=Trajectory
6	break	participle	face not said here			hearted property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	fall	past	face		last	at Sheep's feet; dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location

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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