The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 22
Lady Latifa argued and urged her wishes, but in vain; the prince was not to be moved.
Who acts: Lady · What happens: argue, urge, not move, wish · To what, where: wishes, prince
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady), 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 argued | nsubj |
| 2 | Latifa | Latifa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lady | flat |
| 3 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 urged | cc |
| 5 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 argued | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 urged | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vain | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 vain | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 vain | case |
| 11 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 argued | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 moved | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moved | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 moved | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 moved | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 moved | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 moved | aux:pass |
| 19 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 argued | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 argued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | past | Lady | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | urge | past | Lady not said here | lady's wishes | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not move | past · passive | the prince | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | wish | lady | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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