The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 38

On being questioned the old man said he knew nothing, but begged the prince to stay overnight, and the next morning the old man called all the ravens together, but they too had nothing to tell.

Who acts: old man, man, ravens · What happens: question, say, know, beg, stay, call · To what, where: nothing, prince, ravens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, ravens), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 questioned	mark
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 questioned	aux:pass
3	questioned	question	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 knew	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stay	mark
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	xcomp
18	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	17 stay	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 together	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 together	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 morning	det
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 morning	amod
23	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 together	nsubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 together	nsubj
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 man	acl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 ravens	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ravens	det
30	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 called	xcomp
31	together	together	ADV	_	13 begged	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 had	advmod
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 begged	conj
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 had	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 tell	mark
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 nothing	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	gerund · passive	the old man not said here				vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	past	man	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	beg speech: request	past	the old man not said here		the prince	together property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
5	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			overnight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call	participle	the old man not said here	all ravens			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	ravens = raven	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
8	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	ravens = raven not said here	nothing not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/1/38/