The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 77

He then browned his face quickly, so that his own mother would not have known him, and went into the castle, where he begged for a lodging.

Who acts: Hunter · What happens: brown, not know, go, beg · To what, where: face, own mother, castle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 browned	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 browned	advmod
3	browned	brown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 browned	obj
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 browned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 known	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 known	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mother	amod
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 known	nsubj:pass
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 known	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 known	aux
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 browned	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 known	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 browned	parataxis
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 castle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 castle	det
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 begged	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begged	nsubj
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 lodging	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lodging	det
30	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 begged	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 browned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brown	past	Hunter	Hunter's face		then	quickly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	not know	would · perfect · passive		Hunter's own mother				tree rules
3	go	past			the castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location
4	beg speech: request	past	Hunter				for a lodging	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for lodging=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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