The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 63
‘Ask him whether he will take ten kisses from my ladies-in-waiting.’
Who acts: you, Superbe · What happens: ask, take, wait · To what, where: Superbe, ten kisses
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Superbe), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Ask | obj |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Ask | xcomp |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 kisses | nummod |
| 9 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 ladies | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 waiting | punct |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 waiting | mark |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 take | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | Superbe | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | future | Superbe | ten kisses | from my ladies | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme from lady=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Superbe not said here | 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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