The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 9

Then Turritella went back to the Queen, and asked her what was the lowest price she would take for them.

Who acts: Turritella · What happens: go back, ask, be, take · To what, where: Turritella, lowest price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turritella), 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 went	advmod
2	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Queen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 price	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 price	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 price	det
15	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 price	amod
16	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	ccomp
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 price	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Turritella			then	to the Queen result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to queen=Result
2	ask speech: ask	past	Turritella not said here		Turritella			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is a	past		the lowest price				tree rules
4	take	would	Turritella	the lowest price not said here			for bracelets = bracelet	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent price=Theme for they=Beneficiary

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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