The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 5

He asked her could he do anything to serve her, and she said he might.

Who acts: prince, woman · What happens: ask, do, serve, say · To what, where: woman, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 serve	mark
9	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 anything	acl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 serve	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 might	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	prince		woman	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	could	prince	anything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	serve	to-infinitive	prince not said here	woman		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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