The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 61

Left alone, the princess began to think of many things, but chiefly as to whether she would persuade her husband to give her the stone or not.

Who acts: princess, husband · What happens: leave, begin, think, persuade, give · To what, where: husband, stone, princess

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, husband), 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	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Left	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Left	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 things	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 persuade	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 persuade	cc
14	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	20 persuade	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 persuade	mark
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 as	fixed
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 as	fixed
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 persuade	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 persuade	aux
20	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 husband	nmod:poss
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 persuade	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 give	mark
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 persuade	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stone	det
27	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 not	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 stone	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	participle				alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the princess				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the princess not said here			of many things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	persuade	would	princess	princess's husband		chiefly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Patient clause=Result
5	give	to-infinitive	princess's husband not said here	the stone	princess		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient stone=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/61/