The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 18

There came an old, ugly, bearded hag, and opened it, and they asked her whether all of them could get quarters for the night.

Who acts: brothers, all · What happens: come, open, ask, get · To what, where: old ugly bearded hag, hag, sweetheart, quarters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, all), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hag	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hag	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hag	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ugly	punct
8	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hag	amod
9	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 opened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 opened	cc
12	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 opened	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 get	mark
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 get	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 all	nmod
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	ccomp
25	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 get	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 night	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past		a old ugly bearded hag		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	past		hag				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	brothers = brother		sweetheart			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get	could	all	quarters			night	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quarter=Stimulus

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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