The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 57
And the girl asked him, ‘What can I do to disenchant you?’
Who acts: girl · What happens: ask, disenchant · To what, where: man, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl), 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 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disenchant | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 disenchant | aux |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 disenchant | mark |
| 13 | disenchant | disenchant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 disenchant | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 disenchant | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 disenchant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | disenchant not said to happen | to-infinitive · do-support | you | tree rules |
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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