The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 112

There they sat down, and when they had sat for a short time the youngest Princess said, ‘I may as well comb your hair a little, Halvor.’

Who acts: Heavens, youngest Princess, I · What happens: sit down, sit, say, comb · To what, where: short time, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heavens, youngest Princess, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sat	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	aux
10	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sat	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 Princess	amod
17	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 comb	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 comb	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 comb	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 comb	aux
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	25 comb	cc
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 comb	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 little	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 comb	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Halvor	punct
31	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 comb	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Heavens = heaven		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past · perfect	Heavens = heaven			time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the youngest Princess	a short time not said here				tree rules
4	comb	may	I	your hair			a little obl:unmarked; Halvor obl	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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