The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 15

The old woman who opened it begged him to come in, adding kindly, that if he wanted a night’s lodging he might have it without its costing him anything.

Who acts: old woman, fellow, milk · What happens: open, beg, come in, add, want, have · To what, where: fellow, lodging, milk

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 (old woman, fellow, milk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woman	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	xcomp
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 adding	punct
13	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 come	advcl
14	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	13 adding	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 wanted	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 wanted	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 begged	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lodging	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 night	case
23	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wanted	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 costing	mark
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 costing	nsubj
30	costing	cost	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 have	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 costing	obj
32	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 costing	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	the old woman				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	the old woman		fellow		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	add speech: assert	gerund	the old woman not said here			kindly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	want a condition, not said to happen	past	fellow	a night's lodging			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lodging=Theme
6	have	might	fellow	milk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	cost	gerund	milk		fellow		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary anything=Value

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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