The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 74

The poor man asked timidly if he might spend the night in a corner, adding that he had brought his own supper with him.

Who acts: poor man, man · What happens: ask, spend, add, bring · To what, where: corner, own supper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (poor man, 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	3 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 spend	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spend	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 spend	aux
9	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spend	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 corner	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 corner	det
14	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spend	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 adding	punct
16	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 spend	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 brought	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 adding	ccomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 supper	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 supper	amod
23	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 supper	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the poor man				timidly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	might	man		a corner	night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	add speech: assert	gerund	man not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring	past · perfect	man	man's own supper			with farmer	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent supper=Theme

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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