The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 62

But the more he put her off, the more she tormented him to tell her the cause of his laughter.

Who acts: husband, mistress · What happens: put off, torment, tell, cause · To what, where: mistress, husband, cause, laughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, mistress), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 more	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 put	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tormented	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 more	det
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 tormented	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tormented	nsubj
12	tormented	torment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tormented	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tormented	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cause	det
18	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 laughter	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 laughter	nmod:poss
21	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cause	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	put off	past	husband		mistress	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal
2	torment	past	mistress	husband		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	mistress not said here	the cause of husband's laughter	mistress	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cause=Topic
4	cause			husband's laughter		nom cause «event 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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