The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 37
She entered it and asked if she might be allowed to stay there.
Who acts: maid · What happens: enter, ask, allow, stay · To what, where: hut, maid
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (maid), 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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 asked | cc |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 allowed | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 allowed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 allowed | aux:pass |
| 10 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 allowed | xcomp |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stay | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | maid | hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | maid not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow a condition, not said to happen | might · passive | maid | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | maid not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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