The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 53

When she had written a letter to the king to tell him of this her stepmother asked leave to comb her hair for her, as her own mother used to do.

Who acts: queen, stepmother, own mother · What happens: write, tell, ask, leave, comb, use · To what, where: letter, king, hair · 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 (queen, stepmother, own mother), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 written	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 written	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 written	aux
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 written	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 letter	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 written	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 this	case
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 tell	obl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stepmother	nmod:poss
16	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	advcl
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 comb	mark
20	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 leave	xcomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hair	nmod:poss
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comb	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 comb	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 used	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 used	mark
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mother	amod
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 used	nsubj
30	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 comb	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 used	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	past · perfect	queen	a letter	the king		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to king=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	queen not said here		letter	of this	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	past	queen's stepmother				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	leave	infinitive					tree rules
5	comb	to-infinitive		queen's hair		for queen	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Location for she=Theme
6	use	past	queen's own mother				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	do	to-infinitive	queen's own mother not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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