The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 127

The old hag could stand the thirst no longer, and asked her husband to go for a drink for her; the brats, she said, were of course running about and playing themselves, just as she had expected they would, little wretches that they were.

Who acts: old hag, hag, brats, course, cloak · What happens: stand, ask, go, say, be, run about · To what, where: thirst, husband, brats, cloak, hag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old hag, hag, brats, course), 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	3 hag	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hag	amod
3	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thirst	det
7	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obj
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 stand	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 drink	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 drink	det
19	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 course	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brats	det
24	brats	brat	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 course	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brats	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 course	cop
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 course	case
31	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
32	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 expected	advcl
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 running	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 playing	cc
35	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 running	conj
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 playing	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 expected	punct
38	just	just	ADV	_	42 expected	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 expected	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 expected	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 expected	aux
42	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 course	acl:relcl
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 would	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 expected	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 wretches	punct
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wretches	amod
47	wretches	wretch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 course	appos
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 were	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 were	nsubj
50	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 wretches	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stand	could	the old hag	the thirst		long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thirst=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	the old hag not said here		hag's husband		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old hag not said here			for a drink; for hag	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for drink=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	past	hag	the brats not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brat=Topic
5	is	past	the brats			of course	tree rules
6	run about	gerund				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	play	gerund		cloak			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
8	expect	past · perfect · passive	course not said here	hag			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	be	past	cloak				vn exist-47.1 «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 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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