The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 4

One day, however, a sea captain came and asked Halvor if he hadn’t a fancy to come with him and go to sea, and behold foreign lands.

Who acts: sea captain, Halvor, fancy · What happens: come, ask, have, go · To what, where: foreign lands, Halvor, fancy, sea

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea captain, Halvor, fancy), 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 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 captain	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 captain	compound
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
12	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	iobj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	ccomp
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 fancy	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fancy	det
18	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 sea	case
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lands	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lands	cc
29	behold	behold	INTJ	_	31 lands	discourse
30	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lands	amod
31	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a sea captain	foreign lands			day	however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	a sea captain not said here		Halvor				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent halvor=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Halvor	a fancy					tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	a fancy not said here					with Halvor	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	infinitive	a fancy not said here			sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location

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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