The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 31

He was very sleepy, and was just going toward his room, when the maiden came to him and asked: ‘What is your task to-morrow?’

Who acts: trick, maiden · What happens: be, go, come, ask · To what, where: room, trick, task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trick, maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleepy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleepy	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 sleepy	advmod
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 going	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sleepy	conj
10	toward	toward	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 room	nmod:poss
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleepy	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 task	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 What	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 task	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 task	cop
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 task	nmod:poss
27	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 morrow	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 to	punct
30	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 task	nmod
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sleepy	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sleepy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	trick				sleepy property	tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	trick not said here			trick's room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward room=Initial_Location
3	come	past	the maiden		trick			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	the maiden not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		your task			to morrow	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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