The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 46

The Prince offered to become her servant, and the old hag told him she was badly in want of one, and he seemed to be just the person to suit her.

Who acts: Prince, old hag, hag · What happens: offer, become, tell, be, seem, suit · To what, where: servant, Prince, want, person, hag · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old hag, hag), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 offered	nsubj
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 become	mark
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 offered	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servant	nmod:poss
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hag	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hag	amod
12	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 want	cop
17	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 want	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 want	case
19	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 want	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seemed	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	30 person	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 person	cop
28	just	just	ADV	_	30 person	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 person	det
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 suit	mark
32	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 person	acl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 suit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past	the Prince					tree rules
2	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	woman's servant				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old hag		Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past	hag			want	of one; badly property	tree rules
5	seem	past	Prince					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the person				tree rules
7	suit	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	hag				tree rules

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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