The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 61

Then the old woman began to flatter him, and to praise his cleverness; and when she thought she had got him into a good temper, she said: “I have wondered so often where you get your strength from; I do wish you would tell me.

Who acts: old woman, woman, you · What happens: begin, flatter, praise, think, get, say · To what, where: Dragon, cleverness, good temper, strength, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, you), 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	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 flatter	mark
7	flatter	flatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flatter	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 praise	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 praise	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 praise	mark
12	praise	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 flatter	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cleverness	nmod:poss
14	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 praise	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 thought	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	advcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 got	aux
22	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 thought	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 temper	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 temper	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 temper	amod
27	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 wondered	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 wondered	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 wondered	nsubj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 wondered	aux
35	wondered	wonder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 said	ccomp
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 often	advmod
37	often	often	ADV	_	35 wondered	advmod
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 get	advmod
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 get	nsubj
40	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 often	advcl
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 strength	nmod:poss
42	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 get	obj
43	from	from	ADP	_	40 get	advmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 wish	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 wish	nsubj
46	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 wish	aux
47	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	parataxis
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 tell	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 tell	aux
50	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wish	conj
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 tell	iobj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the old woman				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	flatter	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	Dragon					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	praise	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	Dragon's cleverness					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleverness=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	woman						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	get	past · perfect	woman	Dragon		a good temper			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present · perfect	woman					often property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	get in a quote	present	you	your strength					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strength=Stimulus
9	wish in a quote	present · do-support	woman						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
10	tell speech: assert in a quote	would	you		woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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