The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 75

He could hardly be persuaded to touch food, and all night long he lay moaning, partly with pain, and partly over his own folly in not having begged the doctor to make him several dozens of white slippers, so that in case of accidents he might always have one to put on.

Who acts: intelligence, own folly, one · What happens: persuade, touch, lie, moan, beg, make · To what, where: intelligence, own folly, food, doctor, several dozens, one

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intelligence, own folly, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 persuaded	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 persuaded	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 persuaded	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 persuaded	aux:pass
5	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 touch	mark
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 persuaded	xcomp
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 lay	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 persuaded	parataxis
16	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lay	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pain	punct
18	partly	partly	ADV	_	20 pain	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 pain	case
20	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moaning	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 folly	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 folly	cc
23	partly	partly	ADV	_	27 folly	advmod
24	over	over	ADP	_	27 folly	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 folly	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 folly	amod
27	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 persuaded	obl
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 begged	mark
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 having	advmod
30	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 begged	aux
31	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 folly	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 doctor	det
33	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 begged	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 begged	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dozens	amod
38	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 make	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 slippers	case
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 slippers	amod
41	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 dozens	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 have	punct
43	so	so	SCONJ	_	52 have	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 have	mark
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 case	case
46	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 have	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 accidents	case
48	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 case	nmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 have	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 have	aux
51	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	52 have	advmod
52	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 persuaded	parataxis
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 have	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 put	mark
55	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 have	xcomp
56	on	on	ADP	_	55 put	compound:prt
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	could · passive		intelligence		intelligence's own folly		hardly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	touch	to-infinitive	intelligence not said here	food					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme
3	lie	past	intelligence				night	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	moan	gerund	intelligence not said here					with pain	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme
5	beg speech: request	gerund · perfect	intelligence's own folly not said here	the doctor					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient
6	make	to-infinitive	intelligence's own folly not said here	several dozens of white slippers	intelligence				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary dozen=Product
7	have	might	intelligence	one		case of accidents		always property	tree rules
8	put on	to-infinitive	one not said here						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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 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.

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