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Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 12

She asked for that, and he sent it to her filled with good liquor; then she asked for his girdle, and he sent her that.

Who acts: hag, King · What happens: ask, send, fill · To what, where: whispering, that, hag

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hag, King), 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

nsubjcaseoblpunctccnsubjparataxisobjmarknmod:possadvclcaseamodoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxiscasenmod:possoblpunctccnsubjconjobjobjpunctrootShePRONaskedVERBforADPthatPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsentVERBitPRONtoSCONJherPRONfilledVERBwithADPgoodADJliquorNOUN;PUNCTthenADVshePRONaskedVERBforADPhisPRONgirdleNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsentVERBherPRONthatPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 askednsubj
2askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3forforADP_4 thatcase
4thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 askedobl
5,,PUNCT_8 sentpunct
6andandCCONJ_8 sentcc
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 sentnsubj
8sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 askedparataxis
9ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 sentobj
10totoSCONJ_12 filledmark
11herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 fillednmod:poss
12filledfillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 sentadvcl
13withwithADP_15 liquorcase
14goodgoodADJDegree=Pos15 liquoramod
15liquorliquorNOUNNumber=Sing12 filledobl
16;;PUNCT_19 askedpunct
17thenthenADVPronType=Dem19 askedadvmod
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 askednsubj
19askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 askedparataxis
20forforADP_22 girdlecase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 girdlenmod:poss
22girdlegirdleNOUNNumber=Sing19 askedobl
23,,PUNCT_26 sentpunct
24andandCCONJ_26 sentcc
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 sentnsubj
26sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 askedconj
27hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 sentobj
28thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem26 sentobj
29..PUNCT_2 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpasthagfor thatvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2sendpastKingwhisperingvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3fillparticipleKing not said herewith good liquorvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with liquor=Instrument
4ask speech: askpasthagthenfor King's girdlevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5sendpastKingthathagvn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination that=Theme

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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