The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 14

Then he asked the maid what she wanted, and she said a pair of slippers and some stockings.

Who acts: farmer, wife · What happens: ask, want, say · To what, where: maid, pair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 asked	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pair	det
14	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 slippers	case
16	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pair	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stockings	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 stockings	det
19	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 slippers	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	farmer		the maid	then	tree rules
2	want	past	wife				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	wife	a pair of slippers and some stockings			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pair=Topic

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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