The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 1

So he sent a message to her parents asking their leave to take her for his wife, and they came next day to bring their answer.

Who acts: he, parents, leave · What happens: send, ask, take, come, bring, answer · To what, where: message, parents, leave, her, answer

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, parents, leave), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 parents	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
9	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 parents	acl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 leave	nmod:poss
11	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asking	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asking	xcomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl:unmarked
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bring	mark
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 answer	nmod:poss
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	a message	her parents			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to parent=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	her parents not said here	parents's leave				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	parents's leave not said here	her = she			for his wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for wife=Beneficiary
4	come	past	parents = parent			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here	parents's answer				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
6	answer		parents = parent					nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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