The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 164

The man, however, wished again to show what he had learned, so he asked her to come along with him and bring her dough trough and a ladle.

Who acts: man · What happens: wish, show, learn, ask, come along, bring · To what, where: wife, dough trough

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wished	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 wished	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 wished	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wished	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 show	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 learned	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 learned	aux
13	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 what	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 asked	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wished	parataxis
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	xcomp
21	along	along	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bring	cc
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 trough	nmod:poss
27	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trough	compound
28	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ladle	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ladle	det
31	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trough	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	participle	the man			again	however property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	show	to-infinitive	the man not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
3	learn	past · perfect	man					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	man		wife			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come along not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here				with man; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring	infinitive	man not said here	wife's dough trough and a ladle				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trough=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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