The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 85
However, she invited him to step into the house and be seated while he unfolded his business.
Who acts: Dame, man · What happens: invite, step, seat, unfold · To what, where: man, house, business
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 (Dame, man), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 invited | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | nsubj |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 step | mark |
| 7 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invited | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 step | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seated | cc |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seated | aux:pass |
| 13 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 step | conj |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 unfolded | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 unfolded | nsubj |
| 16 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seated | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 business | nmod:poss |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unfolded | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | Dame | man | however property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | step not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | the house | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | seat | infinitive · passive | man not said here | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP» | |||||
| 4 | unfold | past | man | man's business | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent business=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 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.
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