The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 44

The old woman who lived in the hut beckoned to him to enter, and hardly was he inside when he cried again: “O mother, can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”

Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: live, beckon, enter, be, tell · To what, where: hut, head, anything, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, you), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woman	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
9	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hut	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 beckoned	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 enter	mark
13	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 beckoned	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 cried	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cried	cop
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
19	inside	inside	ADV	_	22 cried	advmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 cried	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 cried	advmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 mother	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 mother	punct
26	O	o	INTJ	_	27 mother	discourse
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tell	nsubj
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 mother	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 tell	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Sister	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Sister	det
36	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 anything	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Sun	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Sun	det
39	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Sister	nmod
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old woman			the hut			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
2	beckon	participle		the hut not said here	head				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	enter	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be speech: express	past	the old woman				again	mother obl; cry, hardly, inside property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you	anything	the old woman = woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic

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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