The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 38

On the following morning the Prince asked his host if he could get him any work to do, as he was quite unknown in the neighbourhood, and had not enough money to take him home.

Who acts: Prince, Iwanich, enough money · What happens: follow, ask, get, do, be, have · To what, where: host, Iwanich, neighbourhood, enough money

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Iwanich, enough money), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 host	nmod:poss
9	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	obj
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 work	det
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 get	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unknown	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 unknown	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 unknown	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 unknown	cop
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 unknown	advmod
24	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 do	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 neighbourhood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 neighbourhood	det
27	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 unknown	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	conj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 enough	advmod
32	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 money	amod
33	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 take	mark
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 take	obj
37	home	home	ADV	_	35 take	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Prince	Prince's host			morning		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent host=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get a condition, not said to happen	could	Prince	Iwanich					tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	Iwanich not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Prince			the neighbourhood		unknown property	tree rules
6	have	past	the Prince not said here	enough money					tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	enough money not said here		Iwanich			home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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