The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 52
By-and-by the maiden stole up to ask what task he had for the next day.
Who acts: task · What happens: steal up, ask, have · 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 (task), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 maiden | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 maiden | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 maiden | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 maiden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stole | obl |
| 8 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 stole | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stole | advcl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 had | obj |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal up | past | by the maiden | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by maiden=Location | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | task | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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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