The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 78

After coming back two or three times, he at last ventured to approach the window and to whisper in the softest voice: “Lovely maiden, will you be my bride?” and she had answered: “I will.”

Who acts: son, you, bride · What happens: come back, venture, approach, whisper, be, answer · To what, where: window, softest voice, bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, bride), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 coming	mark
2	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ventured	advcl
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 coming	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 three	cc
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 two	conj
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 coming	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 coming	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ventured	nsubj
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 ventured	mark
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ventured	amod
12	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 approach	mark
14	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ventured	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approach	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 whisper	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 whisper	mark
19	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 approach	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 voice	det
22	softest	soft	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whisper	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 maiden	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 maiden	punct
26	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 maiden	amod
27	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ventured	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bride	punct
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bride	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 bride	nsubj
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 bride	cop
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bride	nmod:poss
33	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 maiden	parataxis
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 bride	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 maiden	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 answered	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 answered	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 answered	aux
39	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 ventured	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 ventured	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 will	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 will	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ventured	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ventured	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come back	gerund	son not said here			time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	venture	participle	son				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	approach	to-infinitive	son not said here	the window			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme
4	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	son not said here		the softest voice		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location
5	is a in a quote	future	you	my bride			tree rules
6	answer speech: assert	past · perfect	bride				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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