English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 33

And he went on a little further, till he came to an old woman in a grey cloak, and he asked her if she knew where the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland was.

Who acts: Rowland, woman, Dark Tower · What happens: go, come, ask, know, be · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rowland, woman, Dark Tower), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 further	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 further	obl
7	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 woman	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 cloak	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cloak	det
18	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cloak	amod
19	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woman	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	iobj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 knew	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asked	advcl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 was	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Tower	det
30	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Tower	compound
31	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 King	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Tower	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Elfland	case
36	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 King	nmod
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knew	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Rowland			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=Location
2	come	past	Rowland		to a old woman in a grey cloak	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	Rowland	woman		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	know a condition, not said to happen	past	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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.

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