The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 7

The hare instantly offered her services, but the bear took care to ask her to give him a proof of her talents, before he accepted them.

Who acts: hare, bear · What happens: offer, take, ask, give, accept, service · To what, where: services, care, hare, proof, bear, talents

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, bear), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	nsubj
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	4 offered	advmod
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 services	nmod:poss
6	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offered	conj
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ask	mark
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ask	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ask	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 proof	det
20	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 talents	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 talents	nmod:poss
23	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 proof	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 accepted	punct
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 accepted	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 accepted	nsubj
27	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 give	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 accepted	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	offer	past	the hare	hare's services		instantly property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=Theme
2	take	past	the bear	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the bear not said here		hare		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bear not said here	a proof of hare's talents	bear		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient proof=Theme
5	accept	past	bear	services = service			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	service		hare				nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	proof			hare's talents			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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