The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 24
And the Queen asked for her neck-handkerchief, that she might look smart.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: ask, look
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 handkerchief | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 handkerchief | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 neck | punct |
| 9 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 look | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | conj |
| 15 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 look | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Queen | for Queen's neck handkerchief | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | might | Queen | smart property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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