The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 121

And they asked the boy to be their king, but he said no, he must take his mother home to her father’s house.

Who acts: peoples, king · What happens: ask, be, say, take · To what, where: boy, king, mother, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peoples, king), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 asked	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	9 king	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 king	cop
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 king	nmod:poss
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
14	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	18 take	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 no	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	home	home	ADV	_	18 take	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 house	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	peoples = people		the boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	is a	to-infinitive	peoples = people not said here	peoples's king				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	must	king	king's mother		mother's father's house	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mother=Theme to house=Destination

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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