The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 79
The next morning, when she was combing the princess’s hair, she begged leave to cut off another lock.
Who acts: girl · What happens: comb, beg, leave, cut off · To what, where: hair, lock · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 combing | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 combing | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 combing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 combing | aux |
| 8 | combing | comb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 morning | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 combing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 begged | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 begged | nsubj |
| 15 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 begged | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cut | mark |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 leave | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 cut | compound:prt |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 lock | det |
| 21 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comb | past · progressive | girl | the princess's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | girl | morning | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | cut off | to-infinitive | another lock | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lock=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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