The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 70
She went into the lodge, and asked the woodman and his wife to take her into their service.
Who acts: half, scissors · What happens: go, ask, take, service · To what, where: lodge, woodman, half, service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, scissors), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 lodge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lodge | det |
| 5 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woodman | det |
| 10 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wife | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woodman | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 service | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 service | nmod:poss |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | half | the lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | half not said here | the woodman and sun's wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | half | scissors's service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into service=Destination | ||||
| 4 | service | scissors | nom service «act 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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