The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 103
By-and-by he went up to the king’s daughter again, and begged for the honour of another dance.
Who acts: Lad · What happens: go up, beg, honour · To what, where: dance
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lad), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 begged | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 daughter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 begged | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 begged | cc |
| 17 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 honour | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 honour | det |
| 20 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 begged | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dance | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 dance | det |
| 23 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 honour | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Lad | again | to the king's daughter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | for the honour of another dance | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for honour=Topic | |||||
| 3 | honour | another dance | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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