The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 96

So he asked the old woman if he might spend the night beside her fire.

Who acts: Darkness, woman · What happens: ask, spend, fire · To what, where: old 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 (Darkness, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 spend	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spend	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 spend	aux
10	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spend	obj
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fire	nmod:poss
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spend	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Darkness	the old woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	might	Darkness		woman's fire	night	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	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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