The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 21
She asked prettily if she might stay there for the night, and the man with the white beard asked his beasts again:
Who acts: maiden, man · What happens: ask, stay · To what, where: beasts
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, man), 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 | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 2 asked | advmod |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 beard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beard | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beard | amod |
| 19 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | nmod |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 asked | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 asked | advmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | maiden | prettily property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay a condition, not said to happen | might | maiden | there | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the man with the white beard | man's beasts | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient |
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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