The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 42
This will please her, and she will ask you to wrestle with her.
Who acts: This, giantess · What happens: please, ask, wrestle · To what, where: giantess, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, giantess), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 please | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 please | aux |
| 3 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 please | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ask | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | aux |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 please | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wrestle | mark |
| 12 | wrestle | wrestle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ask | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wrestle | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | future | This | giantess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | future | giantess | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wrestle not said to happen | to-infinitive | giantess not said here | with giantess | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent |
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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