The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 27

“Sir, he has beaten my daughter, who only asked him to tell her his secret.

Who acts: king, daughter · What happens: beat, ask, tell · To what, where: Sir, daughter, king, secret, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, daughter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 beaten	punct
2	Sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beaten	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beaten	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beaten	aux
6	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beaten	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 asked	obj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 asked	advmod
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 daughter	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 secret	nmod:poss
18	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 beaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beat in a quote	present · perfect	king	Sir		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daughter=Theme
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past		my daughter	king	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	my daughter not said here	king's secret	life	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient secret=Topic

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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