The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 72

So she told the maiden to ask what price she would, and it should be given her.

Who acts: princess · What happens: tell, ask, give · To what, where: maiden, price · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 ask	obj
9	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 would	nsubj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 would	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 given	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 given	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 given	aux:pass
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 given	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	princess		the maiden	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
3	give	should · passive		price		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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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