The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 54
Thus it happened that one evening a stranger rode up to the castle and asked for hospitality, as he could not reach the nearest town that night.
Who acts: it, stranger · What happens: happen, ride up, ask, not reach · To what, where: castle, nearest town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, stranger), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 rode | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 evening | nummod |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 rode | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 hospitality | case |
| 17 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reach | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 reach | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reach | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reach | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 reach | advmod |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 25 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 town | amod |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | obj |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride up | past | a stranger | the castle | evening | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | for hospitality | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not reach | could | stranger | the nearest town | night | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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