Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 199

Wilhelm, to please her, told her that she might.

Who acts: Wilhelm · What happens: please, tell · To what, where: MIGNON · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wilhelm), 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	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 please	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 please	mark
4	please	please	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wilhelm	parataxis
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 please	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wilhelm	punct
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 might	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 might	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	please	to-infinitive		MIGNON					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	Wilhelm		MIGNON				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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