The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 110

And he asked her if he might spend the night beside her fire, as it was too late and too dark to go back to the town.

Who acts: fox, fire, woman · What happens: ask, spend, be, go back, fire · To what, where: woman, fire

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, fire, woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 asked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 spend	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spend	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spend	aux
8	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spend	obj
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fire	nmod:poss
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spend	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 late	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 late	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 late	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 late	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 late	advmod
19	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spend	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dark	cc
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 dark	advmod
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 late	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dark	advcl
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 town	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 town	det
28	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 back	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	fox	woman				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	might	fox		woman's fire	night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	fire				late property	tree rules
4	be		fire not said here					tree rules
5	go back	to-infinitive	fire not said here					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	fire		woman					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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