The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 41

They took them both in their arms, and asked him to tell about his sorrowful lot during the twenty years he had lived in the forest as a hideous lindorm.

Who acts: women, king · What happens: take, ask, tell, live · To what, where: instructions, arms, king, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, king), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	both	both	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 lot	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lot	nmod:poss
16	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lot	amod
17	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
18	during	during	ADP	_	21 years	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 years	det
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lived	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lived	aux
24	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 lindorm	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lindorm	det
30	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lindorm	amod
31	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	women = woman	instructions = instruction		women's arms		both property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in arm=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	women = woman not said here		king				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here				year	about king's sorrowful lot	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about lot=Topic
4	live	past · perfect	king			the forest		as a hideous lindorm	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

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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