The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 22
At nightfall they reached an inn, which they entered, and the servant gave the landlord the raven to dress for their supper.
Who acts: girths, servant · What happens: reach, enter, give, dress · To what, where: inn, nightfall, landlord
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girths, servant), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 nightfall | case |
| 2 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 entered | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inn | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 servant | det |
| 14 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 landlord | det |
| 17 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 raven | det |
| 19 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 dress | mark |
| 21 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gave | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 supper | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 supper | nmod:poss |
| 24 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dress | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | girths = girth | a inn | nightfall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent inn=Theme at nightfall=Asset | |||
| 2 | enter | past | girths = girth | a inn | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the servant | the landlord | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent landlord=Recipient raven=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dress | to-infinitive | the servant not said here | for girths's supper | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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