The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 130
And he asked her if he might spend the night beside her fire.
Who acts: master, woman · What happens: ask, spend, fire · To what, where: woman, fire
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 spend | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spend | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 spend | aux |
| 8 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spend | obj |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fire | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spend | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | master | woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spend a condition, not said to happen | might | master | woman's fire | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | fire | woman | nom fire «event 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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