The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 110

At length I came to a large castle, and fatigue obliged me to call in the same, where I found a young woman and a child sitting on her knee, and she crying.

Who acts: I, fatigue, child · What happens: come, oblige, call, find, sit, cry · To what, where: length, me, same, young woman, knee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fatigue, child), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 castle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 castle	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 castle	amod
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obliged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 obliged	cc
11	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obliged	nsubj
12	obliged	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 obliged	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 call	mark
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 obliged	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 same	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 same	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 call	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 found	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 call	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 child	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 woman	conj
29	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 child	acl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 knee	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 knee	nmod:poss
32	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sitting	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crying	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 crying	cc
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 crying	nsubj
36	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		length	to a large castle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
2	oblige	past	fatigue	me			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result
3	call	to-infinitive	fatigue not said here		the same		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	I	a young woman and a child			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
5	sit	gerund	a child not said here		fatigue's knee		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knee=Location
6	cry speech: express	gerund	fatigue				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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