The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 59

‘Very well,’ answered the girl, ‘I will go to the city, and knock at the door of the king’s palace, and ask the princess to take me as a servant.’

Who acts: I · What happens: answer, go, knock, ask, take · To what, where: girl, city, princess, me

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 (I), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 answered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knock	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knock	cc
19	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 go	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knock	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 palace	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 palace	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 king	case
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 door	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ask	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ask	cc
30	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 go	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princess	det
32	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ask	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ask	xcomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 servant	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 servant	det
38	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the girl		well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality
2	go	future	I			the city		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
3	knock	infinitive	I not said here				at the door of the king's palace	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here		the princess			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			as a servant	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as servant=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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