The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 57

One day, as the princesses were talking with their father, the younger one asked him whether it might not have been their servant who had helped him so much.

Who acts: princesses, talking, apple, servant · What happens: talk, ask, not be, help · To what, where: king, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (princesses, talking, apple, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talking	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 talking	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princesses	det
6	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talking	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 talking	aux
8	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 asked	csubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	appos
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 servant	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 servant	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 servant	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 servant	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 servant	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 servant	cop
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servant	nmod:poss
25	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	ccomp
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 helped	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 helped	aux
28	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 servant	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 helped	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	28 helped	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	the princesses				with princesses's father	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	talking		king	day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	not is a	might · perfect	apple	princesses's servant				tree rules
4	help	past · perfect	princesses's servant		king			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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