The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 116

The man, who was a wood-cutter, invited them him, and begged them to sit down to supper.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, invite, beg, sit down · To what, where: wood cutter, fortunes

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invited	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cutter	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cutter	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cutter	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cutter	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cutter	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 wood	punct
9	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
11	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 invited	obj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 invited	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 invited	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 begged	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sit	mark
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begged	xcomp
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sit	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 supper	case
22	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sit	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the man and a wood cutter	a wood cutter			tree rules
2	invite	past	the man and a wood cutter	fortunes = fortune			tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	the man and a wood cutter not said here		fortunes = fortune		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man and a wood cutter not said here			to supper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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