The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 17

Then the cruel creatures laughed, and repeated what they had said the day before; but when Ferko continued to beg and beseech them, the eldest said at last, ‘If you will let us put out one of your eyes and break one of your legs, then we will give you a bit of our bread.’

Who acts: cruel creatures, creatures, Ferko, you, us, we · What happens: laugh, repeat, say, continue, beg, beseech · To what, where: creatures, last, us, one, bit, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (cruel creatures, creatures, Ferko, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 laughed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creatures	det
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creatures	amod
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laughed	nsubj
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 repeated	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 repeated	cc
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 laughed	parataxis
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 repeated	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl:unmarked
15	before	before	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 continued	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 continued	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 continued	advmod
19	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 continued	nsubj
20	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 beg	mark
22	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 continued	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beseech	cc
24	beseech	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 beg	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beseech	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eldest	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 eldest	det
28	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 continued	advcl
29	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 eldest	acl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
34	If	if	SCONJ	_	37 let	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 let	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 let	aux
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 continued	parataxis
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 put	compound:prt
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 put	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 eyes	case
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 eyes	nmod:poss
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 one	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 break	cc
46	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 put	conj
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 break	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 legs	case
49	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 legs	nmod:poss
50	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 one	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 give	punct
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 give	advmod
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 give	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 give	aux
55	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	conj
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 give	iobj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 bit	det
58	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 give	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 bread	case
60	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 bread	nmod:poss
61	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bit	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the cruel creatures				then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	repeat	participle							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	creatures = creature				day	before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	continue	past	Ferko						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	Ferko not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	beseech	infinitive	Ferko not said here	creatures = creature					tree rules
7	say speech: assert	participle				last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	let a condition, not said to happen	future	you	us					tree rules
9	put out	infinitive	us not said here	one of your eyes					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
10	break	infinitive	us not said here	one of your legs					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
11	give	future	we	a bit of our bread	you		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bit=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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