The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 4

He spoke to her, and said, ‘Dear child, could I and my servant spend the night in this house?’

Who acts: son, I · What happens: speak, say, spend · To what, where: girl, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, I), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
10	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 spend	aux
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 spend	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 servant	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 servant	nmod:poss
17	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 I	conj
18	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spend	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spend	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 spend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	son	girl			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	son not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spend	could	I		this house	night	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/4/