The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 3

One day three very poor old men came begging to the door, and just as he was going to let the fierce dogs loose on them, his little daughter, Anastasia, crept close up to him and said:

Who acts: poor old men, man, fierce dogs · What happens: come, beg, go, let, lose, creep · To what, where: little daughter, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old men, man, fierce dogs), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl:unmarked
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	flat
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begging	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 going	cc
15	just	just	ADV	_	19 going	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 going	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 let	mark
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 going	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dogs	det
23	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dogs	amod
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 loose	nsubj
25	loose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 let	ccomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loose	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 daughter	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 daughter	amod
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Anastasia	punct
33	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 daughter	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crept	punct
35	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
36	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 crept	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 close	compound:prt
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 close	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 said	cc
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	poor old men			day		tree rules
2	beg speech: request	gerund	poor old men not said here				to the door	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	go	past · progressive	man					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's little daughter				tree rules
5	lose	present	the fierce dogs				on people	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	creep	past	poor old men not said here					tree rules
7	close up	infinitive	poor old men not said here		man			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
8	say speech: assert	past	poor old men not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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