More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 47
So she tried to coax the boy into going at once to bed:
Who acts: wind · What happens: try, coax, go · To what, where: boy, bed
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 coax | mark |
| 5 | coax | coax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coax | obj |
| 8 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 coax | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 going | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | wind | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | coax not said to happen | to-infinitive | wind not said here | the boy | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | wind not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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