The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 73
The prince asked for a night’s lodging and they took him in, gave him some supper and got a room ready for him, where he slept.
Who acts: prince, Luck · What happens: ask, take, give, get, sleep · To what, where: Luck, supper, room
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Luck), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 lodging | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 night | case |
| 8 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 supper | det |
| 18 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obj |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 got | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ready | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slept | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 slept | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slept | nsubj |
| 29 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ready | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince | for a night's lodging | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | prince | Luck | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | some supper | Luck | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient supper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | a room | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sleep | past | Luck | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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.
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