The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 86

When evening came Sigurd asked leave to go home with her, but Helga at first forbade him, as no stranger had ever managed to enter their house without being found out by her father, who was a very fierce giant.

Who acts: evening, Sigurd, Helga, father · What happens: come, ask, leave, go, forbid, manage · To what, where: Sigurd, stranger, house, fierce giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, Sigurd, Helga, father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 leave	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forbade	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 forbade	cc
14	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 forbade	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 first	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 forbade	obl
17	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forbade	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 managed	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 managed	mark
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 stranger	det
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 managed	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 managed	aux
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 managed	advmod
25	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 forbade	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 enter	mark
27	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 managed	xcomp
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 house	nmod:poss
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 enter	obj
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	32 found	mark
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 enter	advcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 found	compound:prt
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 father	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 giant	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 giant	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 giant	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 giant	det
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 fierce	advmod
42	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 giant	amod
43	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 father	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Sigurd				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	infinitive					tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive				with girl; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
5	forbid	past	Helga	Sigurd			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
6	manage	past · perfect · passive		no stranger	ever		tree rules
7	enter	to-infinitive		brothers's house			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
8	find out	gerund · passive	girl's father and a fierce giant				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	girl's father and a fierce giant	a fierce giant			tree rules

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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