More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 28

When the young lord came in he hardly looked up, till he saw a chair close up to him, and asked him: "Pray, sir, had you not once a young daughter whom you would never see or own?"

Who acts: young lord, lord, chair · What happens: come in, look up, see, close up, ask, have · To what, where: chair, lord, young daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lord, lord, chair), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lord	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lord	amod
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 came	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 looked	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 saw	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 chair	det
16	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saw	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 close	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 close	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	iobj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Pray	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Pray	punct
27	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 asked	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sir	punct
29	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Pray	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 had	obj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 daughter	advmod
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 daughter	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 daughter	det
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 daughter	amod
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 see	obj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 see	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 see	aux
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 see	advmod
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 daughter	acl:relcl
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 own	cc
44	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 see	conj
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the young lord				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look up	past	lord			hardly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	lord	a chair			tree rules
4	close up	infinitive	a chair not said here		lord		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask	past			lord		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	have in a quote	past		lord		a young daughter obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	not see in a quote	would	lord	a young daughter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
8	own in a quote	infinitive	lord not said here				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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