English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 30
“Now, father, may I marry my lass?” he asked.
Who acts: father · What happens: marry, ask · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 marry | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 father | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 marry | nsubj |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lass | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 marry | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 marry | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | may | father | father | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lass=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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