The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 11
So when he asked their leave to go out into the world they gave it at once, and seemed quite glad to be rid of him.
Who acts: man, leave, people · What happens: ask, go out, give, seem, be · To what, where: leave, world
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, leave, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 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 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nmod:poss |
| 6 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 world | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 gave | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 glad | advmod |
| 22 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 rid | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 rid | cop |
| 25 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 glad | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | man | people's leave | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | people's leave not said here | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | give | past | people | leave | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | man not said here | glad property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | man not said here | of man; rid property | tree rules |
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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