The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 33

If you come across a young man who pleases you beg him to accompany you, and when you get to an inn invite him to have dinner with you.

Who acts: you, young man, man · What happens: come, please, beg, accompany, get, invite · To what, where: man, you, dinner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young man, man), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 come	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 invite	advcl
4	across	across	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 pleases	nsubj
9	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 beg	nsubj
11	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pleases	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beg	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 accompany	mark
14	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 beg	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 accompany	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 invite	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 get	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 invite	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 inn	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 inn	det
23	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obl
24	invite	invite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 invite	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 have	mark
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 invite	xcomp
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 invite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	present	you			across a young man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across man=Initial_Location
2	please	present	a young man				tree rules
3	beg speech: request	present	you		man		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	accompany	to-infinitive	you not said here	you			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	get	present	you			to a inn result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result
6	invite	imperative	you not said here	man			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	dinner		with you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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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