The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 60
Once more he asked a favour—permission to play on his fiddle, and this the king was graciously pleased to grant.
Who acts: story, king · What happens: ask, play, be, grant · To what, where: favour, fiddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, king), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 favour | det |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 permission | punct |
| 8 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 favour | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 permission | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 fiddle | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleased | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pleased | cc |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 king | det |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleased | cop |
| 20 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 21 pleased | advmod |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 grant | mark |
| 23 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pleased | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | story | a favour and permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | story not said here | story's fiddle | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | this king | graciously, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grant | to-infinitive | this king not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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