The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 37
So the next time he asked her--as he did nearly every day--to his surprise and joy she consented.
Who acts: worst, girl · What happens: ask, do, consent, surprise · To what, where: girl, surprise
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worst, girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 did | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | conj |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 14 day | advmod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 surprise | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 surprise | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 18 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 joy | cc |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 surprise | conj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 consented | nsubj |
| 22 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 surprise | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | worst = bad | girl | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do | past | worst = bad | day | to worst's surprise and joy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | consent | past | girl | worst's surprise and joy not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | surprise | worst = bad | nom surprise «feeling 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 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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