The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 29

She called her oldest and wisest ladies about her and asked their advice, but none of them had any to give.

Who acts: shock, none, any · What happens: call, ask, have, give · To what, where: oldest ladies, advice, any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shock, none, any), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ladies	nmod:poss
4	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 ladies	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wisest	cc
6	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 oldest	conj
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ladies	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 advice	nmod:poss
13	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 had	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 none	nmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 had	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	shock		shock's oldest ladies	about child	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	shock not said here	ladies's advice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
3	have	past	none	any			tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	any not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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