The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 32
And the lion licked her hands and thanked her, and asked if she would not stay and sit by him.
Who acts: lion · What happens: lick, thank, ask, not stay, sit · To what, where: hands, Lion
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 licked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 licked | nsubj |
| 4 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 licked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thanked | cc |
| 8 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 licked | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thanked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 licked | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 stay | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stay | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 stay | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 stay | advmod |
| 17 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sit | cc |
| 19 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stay | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sit | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 licked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lick | past | the lion | Lion's hands | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the lion not said here | Lion | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the lion not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not stay a condition, not said to happen | would | Lion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sit | infinitive | Lion not said here | by friend | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
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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