The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 25

The young fellow knocked at the door and asked the old man who opened it if he could rest there that night, adding that he had no money to pay for it.

Who acts: young fellow, old man, man · What happens: knock, ask, open, rest, add, have · To what, where: young fellow, old man, door, money · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young fellow, old man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fellow	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 knocked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 opened	nsubj
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 opened	obj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 rest	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rest	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 rest	aux
19	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 opened	advcl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 rest	advmod
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rest	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 adding	punct
24	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 rest	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 adding	ccomp
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 money	det
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pay	mark
31	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 money	acl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pay	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	participle		the young fellow not said here				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the young fellow		the old man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	open	past	the old man	door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	rest a condition, not said to happen	could	man			there	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	add speech: assert	gerund	man not said here						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	man	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
7	pay	to-infinitive	man not said here	no money not said here				for money	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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