The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 70
‘Ask her if she would like to buy this mantle.’
Who acts: you, princess · What happens: ask, like, buy · To what, where: princess, mantle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess), 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 | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Ask | iobj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 like | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Ask | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 buy | mark |
| 9 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 mantle | det |
| 11 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | would | princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | this mantle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=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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