The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 66

There was not much talk after the beggar’s entrance, and everyone was glad when the meal came to an end, and the beggar asked if he might sleep in the stable, as he should die of cold if he were left outside.

Who acts: much talk, everyone, meal, beggar · What happens: be, come, ask, sleep, die, leave · To what, where: end, stable, beggar

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much talk, everyone, meal, beggar), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 talk	amod
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	after	after	ADP	_	10 entrance	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beggar	det
8	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entrance	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 beggar	case
10	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 glad	cc
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 glad	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	cop
15	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meal	det
18	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beggar	det
26	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	nsubj
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 sleep	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sleep	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sleep	aux
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asked	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 stable	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stable	det
34	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 die	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 die	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 die	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 die	aux
39	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sleep	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 cold	case
41	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 die	obl
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 left	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 left	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 left	aux:pass
45	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 die	advcl
46	outside	outside	ADV	_	45 left	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	much talk		there	after the beggar's entrance		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	everyone				glad property	tree rules
3	come	past	the meal			to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	the beggar					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep a condition, not said to happen	might	beggar		the stable			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in stable=Location
6	die	should	beggar				of cold	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer
7	leave a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		beggar			outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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