The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 13

They fell into talk, and she asked him where his home was, and how he had managed to come through the fire.

Who acts: dogs, woman, home, Peter · What happens: fall, ask, be, manage, come · To what, where: talk, Peter, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, woman, home, Peter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 talk	case
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 asked	ccomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 home	nmod:poss
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 where	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 where	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 managed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 managed	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 managed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 managed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 managed	aux
19	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fell	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 managed	xcomp
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	dogs = dog			into talk result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into talk=Result
2	ask speech: ask	past	woman	Peter			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	Peter's home			where property	tree rules
4	manage	past · perfect	Peter				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	come	to-infinitive	Peter not said here		the fire		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through fire=Initial_Location

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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