The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 60
And many years after a poor beggar knocked at the palace gates and asked for money, for the sake of days gone by—and this was Geirald.
Who acts: this · What happens: knock, ask, go by, be · To what, where: days, Geirald
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knocked | cc |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knocked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 beggar | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 beggar | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beggar | amod |
| 7 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 8 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gates | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gates | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gates | compound |
| 12 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knocked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knocked | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 money | case |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sake | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sake | det |
| 20 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sake | nmod |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 days | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 gone | obl |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Geirald | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Geirald | cc |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Geirald | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Geirald | cop |
| 29 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knocked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | participle | year | at the palace gates | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gate=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | for money; for the sake of days | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go by | participle | days not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | Geirald | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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