The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 70

And the princess was pleased, and bade her come every day and comb her hair, till at length the girl took courage, and begged leave to cut off one of the long, thick locks.

Who acts: princess, girl · What happens: be, bade, come, comb, take, beg · To what, where: princess, hair, courage, one · 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 (princess, 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	_	5 pleased	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bade	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bade	cc
8	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bade	obj
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bade	xcomp
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl:unmarked
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 comb	cc
14	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hair	nmod:poss
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comb	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 length	punct
18	till	till	ADP	_	20 length	case
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 length	case
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comb	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 length	acl:relcl
24	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 begged	cc
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bade	conj
28	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begged	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cut	mark
30	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 leave	advcl
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 cut	compound:prt
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 cut	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	38 locks	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 locks	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 locks	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 long	punct
37	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 locks	amod
38	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess			pleased property	tree rules
2	bade	past	the princess not said here	princess			tree rules
3	come	infinitive	the princess not said here		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	comb	infinitive	the princess not said here	princess's hair	till length		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	take	past	the girl	courage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
6	beg speech: request	past	the princess not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	leave	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	cut off	to-infinitive		one of the long thick locks			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector one=Eventuality

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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