The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 32
Very soon she came striding in, and he asked politely if she would give him a night’s lodging.
Who acts: sight, brother · What happens: come, stride, ask, give · To what, where: lodging, brother
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, brother), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | striding | stride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 striding | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 10 asked | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 night | case |
| 20 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | sight | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stride | gerund | sight not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | brother | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | sight | a night's lodging | brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lodging=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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