More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 11

When the ball came to an end, he pressed her to tell him where she lived, but all she would answer was:

Who acts: ball, lord, cook, all · What happens: come, press, tell, live, answer, be · To what, where: end, cook, lord · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, lord, cook, all), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pressed	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pressed	nsubj
10	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pressed	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pressed	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 lived	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 was	nsubj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 answer	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 answer	aux
23	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 all	acl:relcl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pressed	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the ball			to a end	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
2	press	past	lord	cook			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	lord not said here		lord		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	live	past	cook				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	would	cook				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	all				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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