The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 15

With these words he tried to slip back into his house, but the tailor laid hold of his coat-tails, and begged so hard to be allowed to stay that the old fellow, who was by no means as cross as he appeared, was at length touched by his entreaties, let him come in, and after giving him some food, showed him quite a nice bed in one corner of the room.

Who acts: man, tailor, old fellow · What happens: try, slip back, lay, beg, allow, stay · To what, where: house, hold, length, man, food, nice bed

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, tailor, old fellow), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tried	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 slip	mark
7	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 slip	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 house	nmod:poss
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slip	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 laid	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tailor	det
15	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	nsubj
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
17	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 tails	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tails	nmod:poss
20	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tails	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 coat	punct
22	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hold	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 begged	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 begged	cc
25	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 hard	advmod
27	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 begged	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	30 allowed	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 allowed	aux:pass
30	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hard	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 stay	mark
32	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 allowed	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 length	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fellow	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fellow	amod
36	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 length	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 means	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 means	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 means	cop
40	by	by	SCONJ	_	42 means	mark
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 means	nsubj
42	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 fellow	parataxis
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 cross	advmod
44	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 means	obj
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 appeared	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 appeared	nsubj
47	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 cross	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fellow	punct
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 length	cop
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 length	case
51	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stay	advcl
52	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 length	acl
53	by	by	ADP	_	55 entreaties	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 entreaties	nmod:poss
55	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 touched	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 let	punct
57	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begged	conj
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 let	obj
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 let	xcomp
60	in	in	ADV	_	59 come	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 showed	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 showed	cc
63	after	after	SCONJ	_	64 giving	mark
64	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 showed	advcl
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 giving	iobj
66	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	67 food	det
67	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 giving	obj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 giving	punct
69	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
70	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 showed	iobj
71	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	74 bed	det:predet
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	74 bed	det
73	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 bed	amod
74	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 showed	obl
75	in	in	ADP	_	77 corner	case
76	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	77 corner	nummod
77	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 showed	obl
78	of	of	ADP	_	80 room	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 room	det
80	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 corner	nmod
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	man				with this words	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	slip back not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			man's house		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	lay	past	the tailor	hold of man's coat tails				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
4	beg speech: request	past	man not said here				hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	allow	to-infinitive · passive	man not said here					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
6	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the old fellow				mean property	tree rules
8	appear	past	man					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	the old fellow			length		tree rules
10	touch	participle		length not said here			by man's entreaties	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	let	infinitive	man not said here	man				tree rules
12	come in	infinitive	man not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	give	gerund		some food	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
14	show	past	man not said here	quite nice bed	man		in one corner of the room	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in corner=Topic
15	hold			man's coat tails				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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