The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 25

‘When I was about three an old man arrived at our house, and begged my nurse to let him come in and rest, as he could walk no longer.

Who acts: I, three, man · What happens: be, arrive, beg, let, come in, rest · To what, where: three, house, nurse, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, three, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 arrived	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 three	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 three	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 three	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 three	advmod
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 arrived	nsubj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	nsubj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nurse	nmod:poss
18	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begged	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 let	mark
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begged	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rest	cc
25	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 walk	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 walk	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 walk	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 walk	aux
30	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	parataxis
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 walk	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	three		about property	tree rules
2	arrive	past	three		our house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	three not said here	my nurse			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient clause=Topic
4	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		man			tree rules
5	come in	infinitive	man not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rest	infinitive	man not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	walk	could	man			long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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