The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 30

The husband tried to persuade her to eat all sorts of delicious fruits that he had found in the forest, but she would have none of them, and grew so thin he feared she would die.

Who acts: husband, woman · What happens: try, persuade, eat, find, have, grow · To what, where: woman, sorts, delicious fruits, forest, none · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 persuade	mark
5	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 persuade	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 persuade	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sorts	det
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 fruits	case
12	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fruits	amod
13	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sorts	nmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 found	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	aux
17	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fruits	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 persuade	conj
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 have	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 none	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grew	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 grew	cc
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 thin	advmod
33	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grew	xcomp
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 feared	nsubj
35	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thin	advcl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 die	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 die	aux
38	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 feared	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the husband				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive	the husband not said here	woman			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
3	eat	to-infinitive	woman not said here	all sorts of delicious fruits			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
4	find	past · perfect	husband	delicious fruits not said here	the forest		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic
5	have	would	woman	none			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
6	grow	past	the husband not said here			thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fear	past	husband				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	die	would	woman				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	sort			delicious fruits			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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