English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 60

So when he asked his way to the castle she put a spell upon him, and when he got to the castle, no sooner was he let in than he fell down dead asleep upon a bench in the hall.

Who acts: giant, wife · What happens: ask, put, get, be, fall down · To what, where: way, spell, bench

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, wife), 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	_	4 asked	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 asked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 castle	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spell	det
13	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 got	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 castle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 castle	det
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 sooner	det
26	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 let	advmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 let	cop
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 got	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	29 let	compound:prt
31	than	than	SCONJ	_	33 fell	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 let	advcl
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 fell	compound:prt
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 asleep	amod
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fell	xcomp
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 bench	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bench	det
39	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 hall	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hall	det
42	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bench	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	giant	giant's way		to the castle	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
2	put	past	wife	a spell		upon giant	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme upon he=Destination
3	get	past	giant			to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
4	is	past	giant			let, soon property	tree rules
5	fall down	past	giant		a bench in the hall	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon bench=Location

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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/pg7439/12/60/