The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 57

Well, the lady with the green hair kept on coaxing Maurice with soft speeches, till at last she over persuaded him to promise to marry her, and be king over the fishes, great and small.

Who acts: lady, Maurice · What happens: keep, coax, persuade, promise, marry, be · To what, where: lady, Maurice, king

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Maurice), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj:pass
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 hair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hair	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	nmod
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 coaxing	mark
11	coaxing	coax	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 kept	advcl
12	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 coaxing	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 speeches	case
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speeches	amod
15	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 coaxing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 last	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	advcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 persuaded	nsubj
21	over	over	ADV	_	22 persuaded	advmod
22	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 last	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 persuaded	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 promise	mark
25	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 persuaded	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 marry	mark
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 king	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 king	cc
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 king	cop
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 promise	obl
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 fishes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fishes	det
35	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 king	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 great	punct
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 king	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 small	cc
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 great	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	participle · passive		the lady with the green hair		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	coax	gerund		Maurice	with soft speeches	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maurice=Patient
3	persuade	past	lady	Maurice	over property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
4	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	Maurice not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Maurice not said here	lady		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	is a	infinitive		king	over the fishes	tree rules

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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