The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 71
They were not willing at first; but she told them she would ask no wages, and would give them diamonds, and pearls, and silk stuffs, and gold thread whenever they wished for them, and then they agreed to let her stay.
Who acts: scissors, half · What happens: not be, tell, ask, give, wish, agree · To what, where: scissors, wages, diamonds, half · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (scissors, half), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 willing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 willing | advmod |
| 4 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 first | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 willing | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | aux |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | ccomp |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 wages | det |
| 16 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ask | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 willing | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pearls | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pearls | cc |
| 25 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stuffs | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stuffs | cc |
| 28 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stuffs | compound |
| 29 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 willing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thread | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 thread | cc |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 thread | compound |
| 33 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 willing | conj |
| 34 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 wished | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wished | nsubj |
| 36 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 thread | acl:relcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wished | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 agreed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 agreed | cc |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 agreed | advmod |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 agreed | nsubj |
| 43 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 let | mark |
| 45 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 agreed | xcomp |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 let | obj |
| 47 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 let | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | scissors | silk stuffs obl; willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | half | scissors | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | would | half | no wages | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wage=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | give | would | diamonds | scissors | pearls obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient diamond=Theme | |||
| 5 | wish | past | scissors | for pearls = pearl; whenever property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | agree speech: agree | past | scissors | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | scissors not said here | half | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | stay | infinitive | half not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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