The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 45
‘’ Then after that ask anything you choose, and the laurels will give it to you.’
Who acts: you, laurels · What happens: ask, choose, give · To what, where: anything, towel, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, laurels), 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 | ‘’ | ‘' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ask | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ask | obl |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 ask | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 choose | nsubj |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 anything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 laurels | det |
| 12 | laurels | laurel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | anything | after that; then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | future | the laurels | towel | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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