The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 24

She had to bear that, but then she asked permission to go to church.

Who acts: Kari · What happens: have, bear, ask, go · To what, where: that, permission, church

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 (Kari), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bear	mark
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bear	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 asked	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 permission	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 church	case
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	Kari				tree rules
2	bear	to-infinitive	Kari not said here	that			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	past	Kari	permission		then	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient
4	go	to-infinitive	Kari not said here	permission not said here	church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

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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