The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 29
So they all persuaded her to do that, and she promised she would; and after eight days she felt so great a longing to see her husband again that she made the wish the same night, and when she woke three hours after, she was in her husband’s palace, and he himself was watching over her.
Who acts: sisters, mother, husband · What happens: persuade, do, promise, feel, see, make · To what, where: mother, that, longing, husband, wish, palace
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, mother, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 persuaded | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 persuaded | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 persuaded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 persuaded | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 promised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 promised | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 promised | nsubj |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuaded | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 would | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 promised | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 felt | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuaded | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 great | advmod |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 felt | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 longing | det |
| 25 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 felt | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 husband | nmod:poss |
| 29 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 see | advmod |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 made | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 made | nsubj |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wish | det |
| 35 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 night | det |
| 37 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 night | amod |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 woke | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 woke | cc |
| 41 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 woke | advmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 woke | nsubj |
| 43 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuaded | conj |
| 44 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 hours | nummod |
| 45 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 after | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | after | after | ADV | _ | 43 woke | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 palace | punct |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 palace | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 palace | cop |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 palace | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 husband | nmod:poss |
| 52 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 palace | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 52 husband | case |
| 54 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 woke | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 watching | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 watching | cc |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 watching | nsubj |
| 58 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 57 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 59 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 watching | aux |
| 60 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 woke | advcl |
| 61 | over | over | ADP | _ | 62 her | case |
| 62 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 watching | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past | sisters = sister | mother | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | mother not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | mother | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | mother | a longing | day | great property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme | ||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | mother not said here | mother's husband | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | make | past | mother | the wish | night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Product | |||
| 7 | wake | past | mother | after property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | is | past | mother | mother's husband's palace | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | watch | past · progressive | husband | over mother | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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