The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 14

By-and-by he began to get hungry, and seeing a small hut in front of him, he knocked at the door and asked if they could give him some milk.

Who acts: fellow, vegetables · What happens: begin, get, see, knock, ask, give · To what, where: small hut, front, milk, fellow

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (fellow, vegetables), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 began	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knocked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knocked	cc
13	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 knocked	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hut	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hut	amod
16	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeing	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 front	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seeing	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knocked	nsubj
23	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 door	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knocked	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knocked	conj
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 give	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 asked	ccomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 milk	det
35	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	fellow					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	fellow not said here				hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	gerund	fellow not said here	a small hut		front of fellow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus
4	knock	past	fellow				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
5	ask speech: ask	past	fellow not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	give a condition, not said to happen	could	vegetables = vegetable	some milk	fellow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient milk=Theme

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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