The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 133
Bring it to the king, and you can ask what you like for it.’
Who acts: you · What happens: bring, ask, like · To what, where: garment, king
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ask | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | garment | the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | can | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | like | present | you | for garment | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for it=Attribute |
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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