The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 115
Towards evening they reached a small hut, and knocking at the door, asked if they might spend the night there.
Who acts: fortunes · What happens: reach, knock, ask, spend · To what, where: small hut
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortunes), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hut | amod |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knocking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knocking | cc |
| 10 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reached | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knocking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 spend | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spend | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 spend | aux |
| 19 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spend | obj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 spend | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | fortunes = fortune | a small hut | evening | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | |||
| 2 | knock | gerund | fortunes = fortune not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | fortunes = fortune not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spend a condition, not said to happen | might | fortunes = fortune | there | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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