The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 68

Not very far off was a farm-house, so he went there, and knocked at the door, and the farmer and his wife begged him to come in, and share their breakfast.

Who acts: son, farmer · What happens: be, go, knock, beg, come in, share · To what, where: farm house, son, breakfast

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, farmer), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 far	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 far	advmod
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 went	advmod
4	off	off	ADV	_	9 house	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 farm	punct
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 far	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 far	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knocked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knocked	cc
17	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knocked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 begged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 begged	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 farmer	det
24	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begged	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wife	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 farmer	conj
28	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 begged	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 come	mark
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 begged	xcomp
32	in	in	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 share	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 share	cc
35	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 breakfast	nmod:poss
37	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 share	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a farm house			off property	tree rules
2	go	past	son			there	far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	knock	past	son not said here				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	beg speech: request	past	the farmer and son's wife		son			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	the farmer and son's wife not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	share	present	son not said here	farmer's breakfast				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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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