The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 50

“Tell me, little mother,” went on the prince, “where shall I find my hare?”

Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: tell, go, find · To what, where: little mother, old woman, hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 prince	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 find	advmod
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hare	nmod:poss
20	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	little mother	the old woman = woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	go	past				on the prince	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on prince=Location
3	find in a quote	shall	the old woman = woman	my hare			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=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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