The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 116
The girl told the old man her story, and asked for a night’s lodging.
Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, ask · To what, where: story, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 lodging | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 night | case |
| 16 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the girl | girl's story | the old man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl not said here | for a night's lodging | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 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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