The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 23

So they fetched the little prince and asked him all sorts of questions, and at last he owned that he had let the hairy man out.

Who acts: Psst, son · What happens: fetch, ask, own, let out, sort · To what, where: little prince, sorts, son, last, questions

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Psst, son), 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	_	3 fetched	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fetched	nsubj
3	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sorts	det
11	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 questions	case
13	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sorts	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 owned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 owned	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 owned	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 owned	nsubj
19	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 let	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 owned	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	23 let	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	fetch	past	Psst	the little prince			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Psst not said here	all sorts of questions	son		tree rules
3	own	past	son			last	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	let out	past · perfect · passive		son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient man=Theme
5	sort			questions			nom sort «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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