--- title: It cost Master Peter many struggles before he could bring himself to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It cost Master Peter many struggles before he could bring himself to visit such a person, but there was no help for it, and, little as he liked it, he ended by making his request to the hangman, who was flattered that so respectable a man as Peter should borrow his robe of office, and willingly lent --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/) / 55 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 55 It cost Master Peter many struggles before he could bring himself to visit such a person, but there was no help for it, and, little as he liked it, he ended by making his request to the hangman, who was flattered that so respectable a man as Peter should borrow his robe of office, and willingly lent it to him. **Who acts:** town, Peter, help · **What happens:** cost, bring, visit, be, like, end · **To what, where:** Master Peter, Peter, person, town, request, hangman This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, Peter, help), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:16:55 # text = It cost Master Peter many struggles before he could bring himself to visit such a person, but there was no help for it, and, little as he liked it, he ended by making his request to the hangman, who was flattered that so respectable a man as Peter should borrow his robe of office, and willingly lent it to him. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Master Master PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 struggles struggle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 16 det:predet _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 by by SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 49 csubj _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 hangman hangman NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 flattered flatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 nsubj _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 respectable respectable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 ccomp _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 52 as as SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 53 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 54 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 borrow borrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ _ 56 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 willingly willingly ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 lent lend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 64 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 obj _ _ 65 to to ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | past | town | | Master Peter | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme peter=Beneficiary struggle=Value | | 2 | **bring** | could | Peter | Peter | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | such person | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | | 4 | **be** | past | no help for town | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **like** | past | Peter | town | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 6 | **end** | past | Peter | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **make** | gerund | | Peter's request | | | | to the hangman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product | | 8 | **flatter** | past · passive | | the hangman | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 9 | **borrow** | should | Peter | Peter's robe of office | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | | 10 | **lend** | past | town *not said here* | town | Peter | | | willingly *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | | 11 | **request** | | Peter | | | | | | nom request «communication 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/56/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/)