The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 26

He asked if she would give him food and drink, and she answered kindly and heartily that she would, if he would only come inside.

Who acts: Englishman, window · What happens: ask, give, answer, come · To what, where: food, Englishman

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Englishman, window), 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	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 give	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drink	cc
10	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 answered	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 answered	nsubj
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	14 answered	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heartily	cc
17	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	15 kindly	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 would	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 would	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 answered	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 come	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 answered	conj
27	inside	inside	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Englishman				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give a condition, not said to happen	would	window	food and drink	Englishman		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	window			kindly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come a condition, not said to happen	would	Englishman			inside property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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