The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 58

The daughter went and told Esben, and asked him what she should do.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: go, tell, ask, do · To what, where: Esben, property · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 do	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	go	past	the daughter		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the daughter not said here	Esben	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent esben=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	past	the daughter not said here	property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	should	daughter		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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