The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 9

First he went to a herdsman, and begged him to hide him in a sheepskin, which had a golden fleece, and in this disguise to take him to the king.

Who acts: eldest, sheepskin · What happens: go, beg, hide, have, take · To what, where: herdsman, eldest, disguise, sheepskin, golden fleece, king

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, sheepskin), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 herdsman	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 herdsman	det
6	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begged	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hide	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sheepskin	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sheepskin	det
16	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hide	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sheepskin	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fleece	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fleece	amod
22	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 disguise	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 disguise	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 disguise	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 disguise	det
27	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begged	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 disguise	acl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 take	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 king	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	eldest = eld			a herdsman	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herdsman=Initial_Location
2	beg speech: request	past	eldest = eld not said here		eldest = eld	this disguise		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	eldest = eld not said here	eldest = eld		a sheepskin		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in sheepskin=Location
4	have	past	a sheepskin	a golden fleece				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Patient
5	take	to-infinitive	eldest = eld not said here	eldest = eld	the king			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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