The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 28
When she agrees to this you must ask her straight out for the princess that she has flying about as a white dove.
Who acts: witch, you · What happens: agree, ask, have, fly · To what, where: witch · 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 agrees | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agrees | nsubj |
| 3 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agrees | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 out | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 ask | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 has | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | ccomp |
| 18 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 has | xcomp |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 flying | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 dove | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dove | det |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dove | amod |
| 23 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | witch | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | must | you | witch | for the princess; out property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | have | present | witch | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | witch not said here | as a white dove; about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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