The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 82

This time the maiden answered that the price of the dress was the permission to see the bridegroom.

Who acts: maiden, price · What happens: answer, be, see · To what, where: permission, bridegroom · 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 (maiden, price), 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	5 answered	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 permission	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 price	det
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 permission	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 dress	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dress	det
11	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 price	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 permission	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 permission	det
14	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 permission	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bridegroom	det
18	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the maiden		time	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the price of the dress	the permission		tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	the bridegroom		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridegroom=Stimulus

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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