The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 97

The Princess went up to the head cook, and said, ‘Dear cook, please listen to my request, and let me make a wedding-cake for Prince Milan.’

Who acts: Princess, me, my · What happens: go up, say, listen, let, make, request · To what, where: me, wedding cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, me, my), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 cook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cook	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cook	compound
8	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cook	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 cook	punct
14	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cook	amod
15	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listen	punct
17	please	please	INTJ	_	18 listen	discourse
18	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 request	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 request	nmod:poss
21	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 listen	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 listen	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cake	det
28	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cake	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 wedding	punct
30	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 Milan	case
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Milan	compound
33	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 cake	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the Princess		to the head cook	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	listen	infinitive			to my request	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=Theme
4	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
5	make	infinitive	me not said here	a wedding cake	for Prince Milan	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for milan=Beneficiary
6	request		my			nom request «communication 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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