The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 64

But even this did not quiet her; she only besought him the more to tell her.

Who acts: this, mistress · What happens: not quiet, beseech, tell · To what, where: mistress, husband · 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 (this, 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	_	6 quiet	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	6 quiet	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 quiet	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 quiet	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 besought	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 besought	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 besought	advmod
11	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 besought	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 more	det
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 besought	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 besought	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not quiet	past · do-support	this	mistress		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	beseech	past	mistress	husband		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	mistress not said here		mistress	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: «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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