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The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 76

The Princess asked Prince Peerless, as he knew the country better than she did, to tell her of some peasant who would give her a lodging, and he said he knew of an old woman whose cottage would be the very place for her, it was so nice and so pretty.

Who acts: Princess, Prince, peasant, cottage · What happens: ask, know, do, tell, give, say · To what, where: Peerless, country, Princess, lodging, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Princess, Prince, peasant, cottage), 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

detnsubjnmod:descoblpunctmarknsubjparataxisdetobjadvmodmarknsubjadvclpunctmarkconjiobjcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relcliobjdetobjpunctccnsubjparataxisnsubjccompcasedetamodoblnmod:possnsubjauxcopdetadvmodacl:relclcasenmodpunctnsubjcopadvmodparataxisccadvmodconjpunctrootTheDETPrincessPROPNaskedVERBPrincePROPNPeerlessPROPN,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONknewVERBtheDETcountryNOUNbetterADVthanSCONJshePRONdidVERB,PUNCTtoPARTtellVERBherPRONofADPsomeDETpeasantNOUNwhoPRONwouldAUXgiveVERBherPRONaDETlodgingNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsaidVERBhePRONknewVERBofADPanDEToldADJwomanNOUNwhosePRONcottageNOUNwouldAUXbeAUXtheDETveryADVplaceNOUNforADPherPRON,PUNCTitPRONwasAUXsoADVniceADJandCCONJsoADVprettyADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Princessdet
2PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing3 askednsubj
3askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing5 Peerlessnmod:desc
5PeerlessPeerlessPROPNNumber=Sing3 askedobl
6,,PUNCT_9 knewpunct
7asasSCONJ_9 knewmark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 knewnsubj
9knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 askedparataxis
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 countrydet
11countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing9 knewobj
12betterwellADVDegree=Cmp9 knewadvmod
13thanthanSCONJ_15 didmark
14sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 didnsubj
15diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 betteradvcl
16,,PUNCT_18 tellpunct
17totoPART_18 tellmark
18telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf9 knewconj
19hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 telliobj
20ofofADP_22 peasantcase
21somesomeDETPronType=Ind22 peasantdet
22peasantpeasantNOUNNumber=Sing18 tellobl
23whowhoPRONPronType=Rel25 givensubj
24wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 giveaux
25givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf22 peasantacl:relcl
26hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 giveiobj
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 lodgingdet
28lodginglodgingNOUNNumber=Sing25 giveobj
29,,PUNCT_32 saidpunct
30andandCCONJ_32 saidcc
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 saidnsubj
32saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 askedparataxis
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 knewnsubj
34knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 saidccomp
35ofofADP_38 womancase
36anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 womandet
37oldoldADJDegree=Pos38 womanamod
38womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing34 knewobl
39whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel40 cottagenmod:poss
40cottagecottageNOUNNumber=Sing45 placensubj
41wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin45 placeaux
42bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf45 placecop
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 placedet
44veryveryADV_45 placeadvmod
45placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing38 womanacl:relcl
46forforADP_47 hercase
47hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 placenmod
48,,PUNCT_52 nicepunct
49ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs52 nicensubj
50wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin52 nicecop
51sosoADV_52 niceadvmod
52niceniceADJDegree=Pos3 askedparataxis
53andandCCONJ_55 prettycc
54sosoADV_55 prettyadvmod
55prettyprettyADV_52 niceconj
56..PUNCT_3 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastthe PrincessPeerless Princevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2knowpastPrincethe countrywell propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus
3dopastPrincessvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4tell speech: assertto-infinitivePrince not said herePrincessof some peasantvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5givewouldsome peasanta lodgingPrincessvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lodging=Theme
6say speech: assertpastPrincevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7knowpastPrinceof a old womanvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of woman=Stimulus
8is awouldthe place's cottagethe placefor Princesstree rules
9ispastcottagenice propertytree rules

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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