The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 28
After many arguments and entreaties he succeeded in persuading the king to give him two great oak trees for his very own.
Who acts: king · What happens: succeed, persuade, give · To what, where: king, two great oak trees
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 arguments | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arguments | amod |
| 3 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 succeeded | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 entreaties | cc |
| 5 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arguments | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 succeeded | nsubj |
| 7 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 persuading | mark |
| 9 | persuading | persuade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 succeeded | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 persuading | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 persuading | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 trees | nummod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trees | amod |
| 17 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trees | compound |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 own | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 own | nmod:poss |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 own | advmod |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trees | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | king | after many arguments and entreaties | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | persuade | gerund | king not said here | the king | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | king not said here | two great oak trees | king | for king's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tree=Theme for own=Asset |
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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