The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 85

He fell in love with her at once, and entreated her to marry him, which, after a time, she consented to do.

Who acts: husband, Signy · What happens: fall, entreat, marry, consent, do · To what, where: love, Signy, husband

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 (husband, Signy), 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	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 love	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 entreated	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 entreated	cc
11	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 entreated	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 entreated	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 marry	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 which	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 marry	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 consented	punct
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 consented	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 time	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 consented	nsubj
24	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 entreated	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 consented	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	husband			love		with Signy	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
2	entreat	past	husband not said here		Signy				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	marry	to-infinitive	husband not said here	husband					tree rules
4	consent	past	Signy				time		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive	Signy not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 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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