The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 11
He went in there, and asked for leave to rest himself for a little on the bench.
Who acts: king · What happens: go in, ask, rest · To what, where: king, bench
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 leave | case |
| 9 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rest | mark |
| 11 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | xcomp |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 rest | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 little | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rest | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 bench | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bench | det |
| 18 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rest | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | king | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king not said here | for leave | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | king | the bench | for a little | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on bench=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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