The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 44
At first the only favour she asked was to be allowed to walk for one hour every day up and down the long gallery.
Who acts: Rosalie, only favour · What happens: ask, allow, walk · To what, where: only favour, long gallery
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosalie, only favour), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 allowed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 favour | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 favour | amod |
| 5 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 favour | acl:relcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 allowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 allowed | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 walk | mark |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allowed | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hour | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hour | nummod |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walk | obl |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 gallery | case |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 down | cc |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 up | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gallery | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gallery | amod |
| 24 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walk | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Rosalie | the only favour not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | the only favour | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk not said to happen | to-infinitive | the only favour not said here | the long gallery | day; hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up gallery=Trajectory |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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