The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 85

But the maid did not want money, and asked that she should sleep again by the Prince’s door.

Who acts: maid, bride · What happens: not want, ask, sleep · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, bride), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 want	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maid	det
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 sleep	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sleep	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sleep	aux
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 sleep	advmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	20 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 door	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Prince	case
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleep	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	the maid	money			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the maid not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep	should	bride		again	by the Prince's door	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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