The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 67

“Then I beg your Highness to ask Lucky Luck this question: Why is it that though I have an excellent mill, with all its machinery complete, and get plenty of grain to grind, I am so poor that I hardly know how to live from one day to another?”

Who acts: prince, question · What happens: beg, ask, have, get, grind, be · To what, where: Highness, question, Lucky Luck, excellent mill, plenty · 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, question), 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	_	4 beg	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 beg	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 beg	nsubj
4	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Highness	nmod:poss
6	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beg	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beg	advcl
9	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Luck	compound
10	Luck	Luck	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 question	det
12	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 poor	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	42 poor	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 poor	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 poor	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 poor	nsubj
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 poor	advcl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mill	det
22	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mill	amod
23	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 machinery	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 machinery	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 machinery	det:predet
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 machinery	nmod:poss
28	machinery	machinery	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mill	appos
29	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 machinery	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 get	cc
32	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 complete	parataxis
33	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 grain	case
35	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plenty	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 grind	mark
37	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 get	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 poor	nsubj
40	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 poor	cop
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 poor	advmod
42	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beg	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 know	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 know	nsubj
45	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	46 know	advmod
46	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 poor	advcl
47	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	49 live	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 live	mark
49	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 know	ccomp
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 day	case
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 day	nummod
52	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 live	obl
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 another	case
54	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	52 day	nmod
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 beg	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	present	the prince = prince	your Highness		then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent highness=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here	this question	Lucky Luck			tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	the prince = prince	a excellent mill				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient
4	get in a quote	infinitive		plenty of grain				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus
5	grind in a quote	to-infinitive						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	is in a quote	present	question				poor property	tree rules
7	know in a quote	present	the prince = prince				hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	live in a quote	to-infinitive				day		vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «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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