The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 90
However, when they saw what was written above the door, they were all well pleased to get a night’s lodging for nothing.
Who acts: people · What happens: see, write, be, get · To what, where: door, lodging · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 written | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 written | aux:pass |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 written | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleased | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleased | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 pleased | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 pleased | advmod |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pleased | advcl |
| 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 get | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 nothing | case |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | people | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | the door | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | people | all, pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | people not said here | a night's lodging | for nothing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lodging=Theme for nothing=Source |
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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