The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 80
Halvor then inquired if he could stay there and have lodging for the night.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: inquire, stay, have, lodge
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 (Halvor), 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 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 inquired | advmod |
| 3 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 inquired | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | conj |
| 11 | lodging | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 have | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lodging | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | Halvor | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay a condition, not said to happen | could | Halvor | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Halvor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lodge | gerund | Halvor not said here | night | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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 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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