The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 50
The lad asked for these things and obtained them instantly, for the King thought that for very shame he could not refuse to give them, and so Dapplegrim got new shoes, and they were good ones.
Who acts: lad, King, Dapplegrim, shoes · What happens: ask, obtain, think, not refuse, give, get · To what, where: shoes, that, shame, new shoes, good ones
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (lad, King, Dapplegrim, shoes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 obtained | cc |
| 8 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obtained | obj |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 8 obtained | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 shame | case |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 shame | advmod |
| 19 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 refuse | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 refuse | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 refuse | advmod |
| 23 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shame | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 refuse | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 got | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 got | advmod |
| 30 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 got | nsubj |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shoes | amod |
| 33 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 got | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ones | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ones | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ones | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ones | cop |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ones | amod |
| 39 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 got | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the lad | for this things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | obtain | past | the lad not said here | shoes = shoe | instantly property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the King | that | for shame | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | |||
| 4 | not refuse | could | King | shame not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | King not said here | shoes = shoe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | past | Dapplegrim | new shoes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | shoes = shoe | good ones | tree 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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