The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 44
After that the Prince went to church, and Kari also asked leave to go.
Who acts: Prince, Kari · What happens: go, ask, leave · To what, where: 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 (Prince, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 went | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 10 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 leave | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Prince | church | after that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Kari | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | infinitive | Kari not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Kari not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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