The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 15

That was all that the rascal wanted, and he put on directly his most humble air, and begged the woman in his softest voice to loosen his bonds, which her hurting him sorely.

Who acts: That, peasant, bonds · What happens: be, put on, beg, loosen, hurt, bond · To what, where: humble air, woman, softest voice, bonds, peasant

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, peasant, bonds), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 wanted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanted	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wanted	det:predet
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wanted	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rascal	det
6	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanted	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
13	directly	directly	ADV	_	17 air	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 air	nmod:poss
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 humble	advmod
16	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 air	amod
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 begged	cc
20	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanted	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 begged	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 voice	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 voice	nmod:poss
25	softest	soft	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 voice	amod
26	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 begged	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 loosen	mark
28	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begged	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bonds	nmod:poss
30	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 loosen	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hurting	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 hurting	nsubj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hurting	nmod:poss
34	hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 bonds	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hurting	obj
36	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	34 hurting	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	That				want property	tree rules
2	put on	past	peasant	peasant's humble air				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past	That not said here		the woman	peasant's softest voice		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
4	loosen	to-infinitive	That not said here	peasant's bonds				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bond=Patient
5	hurt	gerund	peasant's bonds	peasant			sorely property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
6	bond		peasant					nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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