The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 16
‘Can I sleep here, and have shelter for the night?’ asked the youth.
Who acts: I · What happens: sleep, have, ask · To what, where: shelter, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | conj |
| 9 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | can | I | here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I not said here | shelter | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the youth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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