English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 21
Kate knocked at the door and asked for a night's lodging for herself and a sick sister.
Who acts: Kate · What happens: knock, ask
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:1724): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knocked | nsubj |
| 2 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knocked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knocked | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 lodging | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 night | case |
| 12 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 lodging | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sister | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sister | det |
| 17 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sister | amod |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 herself | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | Kate | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Kate not said here | for a night's lodging for Kate | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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