Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 58

When he had finished his supper the man asked him if he could direct him to the castle of Stromberg.

Who acts: man, finished supper · What happens: finish, ask, direct · To what, where: man, supper

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, finished supper), 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	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 supper	amod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 supper	nmod:poss
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 direct	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 direct	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 direct	aux
14	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 direct	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 castle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 castle	det
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 direct	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Stromberg	case
20	Stromberg	Stromberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 castle	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	man				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	man's finished supper		man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	direct a condition, not said to happen	could	man	supper		to the castle of Stromberg	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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