The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 92

Again and again you rode back to see her, and at length persuaded her to marry you.

Who acts: you · What happens: ride back, see, persuade, marry · To what, where: girl, length, you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	5 rode	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 again	cc
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Again	conj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 rode	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rode	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 persuaded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 persuaded	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 persuaded	obl
14	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 persuaded	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 marry	mark
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 persuaded	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 marry	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ride back	past	you			again	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here	girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	persuade	past	you not said here	girl	length		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	marry	to-infinitive	you not said here	you			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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