The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 7

As there was no wind at all they lay there becalmed, and Halvor asked the skipper to give him leave to go on shore to look about him, for he would much rather do that than lie there and sleep.

Who acts: wind, parents, Halvor, skipper · What happens: be, lie, becalm, ask, give, leave · To what, where: all, skipper, Halvor, shore, that

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 (wind, parents, Halvor, skipper), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 was	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 becalmed	advmod
11	becalmed	becalm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lay	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
14	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 skipper	det
17	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 give	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leave	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 shore	case
25	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	advcl
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 look	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 do	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 do	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 do	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 do	aux
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 rather	advmod
35	rather	rather	ADV	_	36 do	advmod
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 look	conj
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 do	obj
38	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 lie	mark
39	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 do	advcl
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 lie	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sleep	cc
42	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lie	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no wind			all; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	lie	past	parents = parent					tree rules
3	becalm	participle	parents = parent not said here			there		tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	Halvor	the skipper				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent skipper=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the skipper not said here		Halvor			tree rules
6	leave	infinitive	the skipper not said here					tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	the skipper not said here			shore		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
8	look	to-infinitive	the skipper not said here				about Halvor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
9	do	would	Halvor	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
10	lie	infinitive	Halvor not said here			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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