The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 2

One day, however, a young man arrived to pay his addresses to her, and her mother, beaming with joy, sent her daughter down to the cellar to draw a jug of beer.

Who acts: young man, mother, man · What happens: arrive, pay, beam, send down, draw, address · To what, where: addresses, girl, daughter, cellar, jug

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, mother, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrived	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 arrived	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrived	nsubj
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pay	mark
11	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 arrived	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 addresses	nmod:poss
13	addresses	address	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pay	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beaming	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beaming	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beaming	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beaming	punct
21	beaming	beam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 arrived	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 joy	case
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beaming	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 arrived	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	iobj
28	down	down	ADV	_	25 sent	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 cellar	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cellar	det
31	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 draw	mark
33	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 jug	det
35	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 draw	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 beer	case
37	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 jug	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	a young man				day	however property	tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	a young man not said here	man's addresses	girl				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Asset
3	beam	gerund	girl's mother					with joy	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme
4	send down	past	a young man not said here		girl's daughter	the cellar		down property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to cellar=Destination
5	draw	to-infinitive	a young man not said here	a jug of beer					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Theme
6	address		man						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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