The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 85
Of course, he went at once to the king’s daughter, and asked her if she had done with it, but she put him off with some excuse, and told him to come back next day.
Who acts: Ciccu, daughter · What happens: go, ask, do, put off, tell, come back · To what, where: daughter, Ciccu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 course | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 put | compound:prt |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 excuse | case |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 excuse | det |
| 31 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 told | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 told | cc |
| 34 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 told | iobj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 come | mark |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 told | xcomp |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 come | advmod |
| 39 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 day | amod |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 come | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ciccu | the king's daughter | of course | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of course=Initial_Location to daughter=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ciccu not said here | daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | daughter | with course | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put off | past | daughter | Ciccu | with some excuse | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Ciccu not said here | Ciccu | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ciccu not said here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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