The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 89
Then the princess spoke, and tried to persuade the guest to change his mind, but he sorrowfully shook his head.
Who acts: princess, guest · What happens: speak, try, persuade, change, shake, mind · To what, where: guest, mind, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (princess, guest), 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 | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 persuade | mark |
| 9 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guest | det |
| 11 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 persuade | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 change | mark |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 persuade | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shook | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 shook | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shook | nsubj |
| 19 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 20 shook | advmod |
| 20 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shook | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the princess | then | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the princess not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | the guest | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient | ||||
| 4 | change | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | guest's mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shake | past | guest | guest's head | sorrowfully property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 6 | mind | guest | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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