The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 11

One day she arrived at a thatched cottage, and inquired if they could give her any work.

Who acts: girl, sightseers · What happens: arrive, thatch, inquire, give · To what, where: thatched cottage, work, girl

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sightseers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
7	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cottage	amod
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 inquired	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 inquired	cc
11	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 give	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 inquired	ccomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 work	det
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	arrive	past	girl			a thatched cottage	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	thatch	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	inquire speech: other	past	girl not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give a condition, not said to happen	could	sightseers = sightseer	any work	girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient work=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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