The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 88

‘Ask him if he will come with us.’

Who acts: you, man · What happens: ask, come · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
2	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Ask	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Ask	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come a condition, not said to happen	future	man					with us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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