The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 58

Red then asked him to send them both to cut down wood next morning, and see which of them could do most work.

Who acts: Red · What happens: ask, send, cut down, see, do · To what, where: Prince, King, wood, most work · 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 (Red), 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	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 send	obj
8	both	both	ADV	_	6 send	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cut	mark
10	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 send	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 do	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obl
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	ccomp
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 work	amod
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Red		Prince	then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	Red not said here	King			both property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	cut down	to-infinitive	Red not said here	wood		morning		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
4	see	infinitive	Red not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	could		most work			of King	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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