The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 73
Renelde obeyed, and that evening Guilbert asked her:
Who acts: Renelde, evening · What happens: obey, ask · To what, where: Renelde
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renelde, evening), 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 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 evening | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | Guilbert | Guilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 evening | appos |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Renelde | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | that evening | Renelde | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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