The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 107

Shall I send for your ladies to bath the place?' asked the prince, pouring out these and a dozen other questions, to which the girl only shook her head.

Who acts: I, girl · What happens: send, ask, pour out, shake · To what, where: place, prince, dozen other questions, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl), 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 send	nsubj
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 ladies	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ladies	nmod:poss
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 send	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bath	mark
8	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pouring	punct
17	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 asked	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 pouring	compound:prt
19	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 dozen	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dozen	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dozen	det
22	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 questions	nummod
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 questions	amod
24	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pouring	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shook	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 shook	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shook	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 shook	advmod
31	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shook	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	shall	I	the place		for your ladies	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			the prince		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pour out	gerund		dozen other questions			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
4	shake	past	the girl	princess's head			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme to which=Trajectory

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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