The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 32

At last there knocked at the gate a little old man with a long white beard, and said, ‘Will you give me work, so that I may earn my bread?’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: knock, say, give, work, earn · To what, where: little old man, gate, me, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADV	_	4 knocked	obl
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 knocked	advmod
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 beard	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beard	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beard	amod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beard	amod
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
22	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knocked	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 give	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 earn	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 earn	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 earn	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 earn	aux
32	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 give	conj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bread	nmod:poss
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 earn	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	participle		a little old man		the gate; there	with a long white beard	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent man=Theme at last=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	give	future	you		me			tree rules
4	work	infinitive	you not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	earn	may	I	my bread				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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