The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 83
This time it fitted him, and he was quite pleased, and asked her what he could give her in return.
Who acts: lock, prince · What happens: fit, be, ask, give · To what, where: prince, girl, return · 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 (lock, prince), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fitted | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fitted | nsubj |
| 4 | fitted | fit | 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 fitted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pleased | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | cop |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fitted | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fitted | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 give | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 return | case |
| 22 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | lock | prince | time | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | prince | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | lock not said here | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give | could | prince | girl | return | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Theme |
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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