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The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 18

On Sunday some strangers were coming to the King’s palace, so Kari begged to have leave to carry up the water for the Prince’s bath, but the others laughed at her and said, ‘What do you want there?

Who acts: strangers, Kari, leave, others, you · What happens: come, beg, have, carry up, laugh, say · To what, where: palace, leave, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (strangers, Kari, leave, others), 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

caseobldetnsubjauxcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxismarkxcompobjmarkxcompcompound:prtdetobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccdetnsubjconjcaseoblccconjpunctpunctobjauxnsubjccompadvmodpunctrootOnADPSundayPROPNsomeDETstrangersNOUNwereAUXcomingVERBtoADPtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTpalaceNOUN,PUNCTsoADVKariPROPNbeggedVERBtoPARThaveVERBleaveNOUNtoPARTcarryVERBupADPtheDETwaterNOUNforADPtheDETPrincePROPN’sPARTbathNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETothersNOUNlaughedVERBatADPherPRONandCCONJsaidVERB,PUNCT‘PUNCTWhatPRONdoAUXyouPRONwantVERBthereADV?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_2 Sundaycase
2SundaySundayPROPNNumber=Sing6 comingobl
3somesomeDETPronType=Ind4 strangersdet
4strangersstrangerNOUNNumber=Plur6 comingnsubj
5werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 comingaux
6comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
7totoADP_11 palacecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Kingdet
9KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing11 palacenmod:poss
10’s'sPART_9 Kingcase
11palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing6 comingobl
12,,PUNCT_15 beggedpunct
13sosoADV_15 beggedadvmod
14KariKariPROPNNumber=Sing15 beggednsubj
15beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 comingparataxis
16totoPART_17 havemark
17havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf15 beggedxcomp
18leaveleaveNOUNNumber=Sing17 haveobj
19totoPART_20 carrymark
20carrycarryVERBVerbForm=Inf17 havexcomp
21upupADP_20 carrycompound:prt
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 waterdet
23waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing20 carryobj
24forforADP_28 bathcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Princedet
26PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing28 bathnmod:poss
27’s'sPART_26 Princecase
28bathbathNOUNNumber=Sing20 carryobl
29,,PUNCT_33 laughedpunct
30butbutCCONJ_33 laughedcc
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 othersdet
32othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur33 laughednsubj
33laughedlaughVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 beggedconj
34atatADP_35 hercase
35hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 laughedobl
36andandCCONJ_37 saidcc
37saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 laughedconj
38,,PUNCT_43 wantpunct
39‘'PUNCT_43 wantpunct
40WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int43 wantobj
41dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin43 wantaux
42youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs43 wantnsubj
43wantwantVERBVerbForm=Inf37 saidccomp
44therethereADVPronType=Dem43 wantadvmod
45??PUNCT_6 comingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepast · progressivesome strangersthe King's palacesundayvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2beg speech: requestpastKarivn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3have not said to happento-infinitiveKari not said hereleavetree rules
4carry upto-infinitiveleave not said herethe waterfor the Prince's bathvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5laughpastthe othersat Karivn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6say speech: assertpastthe others not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7wantpresent · do-supportyoutherevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 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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