The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 27
She then said to him, ‘When the witch comes home you must ask her to grant you a wish, when you have accomplished so well all that she has demanded of you.
Who acts: princess, witch, you · What happens: say, come, ask, grant, accomplish, demand · To what, where: prince, princess, wish, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, witch, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 8 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 comes | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 comes | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 grant | mark |
| 18 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ask | xcomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 grant | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wish | det |
| 21 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grant | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 accomplished | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 accomplished | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 accomplished | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 accomplished | aux |
| 26 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 ask | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 well | advmod |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 accomplished | advmod |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 well | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 demanded | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 demanded | nsubj |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 demanded | aux |
| 33 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 accomplished | advcl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 demanded | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | princess | prince | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | present | the witch | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | must | you | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | grant not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a wish | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal wish=Theme | |||
| 5 | accomplish | present · perfect | you | well property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | demand speech: request | present · perfect | princess | of you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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