The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 41

‘Come in, my young friend,’ said the old man; ‘my house is not large, but it is big enough to hold a stranger.’

Who acts: old man, house · What happens: come in, say, not be, be, hold · To what, where: stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, house), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friend	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 large	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 large	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 large	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 large	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 large	advmod
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 big	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 big	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 big	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 big	cop
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 large	conj
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 big	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hold	mark
28	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 big	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stranger	det
30	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hold	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 large	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is	present	my house		large property	tree rules
4	is	present	house		big, enough property	tree rules
5	hold	to-infinitive	house not said here	a stranger		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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 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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