The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 33

The little maid looked at the two jars from under her long dark lashes: “In the oil jar,” she answered timidly, thinking to herself: “I could not ask to be bathed in gold.”

Who acts: little maid, maid, I · What happens: look, answer, think, not ask, bath · To what, where: oil jar, maid, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maid, maid, I), 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	3 maid	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maid	amod
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 jars	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jars	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 jars	nummod
8	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	14 lashes	case
10	under	under	ADP	_	14 lashes	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lashes	nmod:poss
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lashes	amod
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lashes	amod
14	lashes	lash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
17	In	in	ADP	_	20 jar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jar	det
19	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jar	compound
20	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jar	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 jar	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 answered	nsubj
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	parataxis
25	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	24 answered	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thinking	punct
27	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 answered	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 herself	case
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 thinking	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 ask	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 ask	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 ask	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 ask	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 ask	advmod
35	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thinking	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	38 bathed	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 bathed	aux:pass
38	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 ask	xcomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 gold	case
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bathed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 ask	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the little maid			from maid's long dark lashes; at the two jars	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at jar=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	maid		the oil jar	timidly property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund		maid			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not ask speech: ask in a quote	could	I				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bath not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here		gold		tree rules

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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