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The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 50

The Queen asked leave to decide what Hadvor’s punishment should be, which the King was very willing to allow, so as to escape from punishing his own daughter.

Who acts: Queen, leave, Hadvor · What happens: ask, decide, be, allow, escape, punish · To what, where: leave, own daughter

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, leave, Hadvor), 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

detnsubjobjmarkxcompobjnmod:posscasensubjauxacl:relclpunctnsubjdetnsubjcopadvmodparataxismarkxcomppunctadvmodmarkmarkconjmarkadvclnmod:possamodobjpunctrootTheDETQueenPROPNaskedVERBleaveNOUNtoPARTdecideVERBwhatPRONHadvorPROPN’sPARTpunishmentNOUNshouldAUXbeAUX,PUNCTwhichPRONtheDETKingPROPNwasAUXveryADVwillingADJtoPARTallowVERB,PUNCTsoADVasSCONJtoPARTescapeVERBfromSCONJpunishingVERBhisPRONownADJdaughterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Queendet
2QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing3 askednsubj
3askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4leaveleaveNOUNNumber=Sing3 askedobj
5totoPART_6 decidemark
6decidedecideVERBVerbForm=Inf3 askedxcomp
7whatwhatPRONPronType=Int6 decideobj
8HadvorHadvorPROPNNumber=Sing10 punishmentnmod:poss
9’s'sPART_8 Hadvorcase
10punishmentpunishmentNOUNNumber=Sing12 bensubj
11shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin12 beaux
12bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf7 whatacl:relcl
13,,PUNCT_19 willingpunct
14whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel19 willingnsubj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Kingdet
16KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing19 willingnsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 willingcop
18veryveryADV_19 willingadvmod
19willingwillingADJDegree=Pos7 whatparataxis
20totoPART_21 allowmark
21allowallowVERBVerbForm=Inf19 willingxcomp
22,,PUNCT_26 escapepunct
23sosoADV_26 escapeadvmod
24asasSCONJ_26 escapemark
25totoPART_26 escapemark
26escapeescapeVERBVerbForm=Inf6 decideconj
27fromfromSCONJ_28 punishingmark
28punishingpunishVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part26 escapeadvcl
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 daughternmod:poss
30ownownADJDegree=Pos31 daughteramod
31daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing28 punishingobj
32..PUNCT_3 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastthe Queenleavevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient clause=Topic
2decide not said to happento-infinitiveleave not said herevn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3ispastwilling propertytree rules
4allowto-infinitivevn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5escapeto-infinitiveleave not said herevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6punishgerundleave not said herepunishment's own daughtervn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
7punishHadvornom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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