The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 106
“I have another thing to ask,” said the prince, when he had thanked him.
Who acts: prince, servant · What happens: have, ask, say, thank · To what, where: thing, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, servant), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 thing | det |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thanked | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 thanked | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thanked | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thanked | aux |
| 17 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thanked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the prince = prince | another thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | the prince = prince not said here | another thing not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past · perfect | servant | boy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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