The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 95

She did her best to persuade him to remain with her, but he would not listen, and at last she grew angry.

Who acts: Denis, Tephany · What happens: persuade, remain, not listen, grow · To what, where: Denis, last

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Denis, Tephany), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 best	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 best	aux
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 best	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 persuade	mark
6	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 best	csubj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 persuade	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remain	mark
9	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 persuade	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remain	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listen	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 listen	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 listen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 listen	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 listen	advmod
17	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 persuade	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grew	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 listen	conj
24	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grew	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	to-infinitive		Denis			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
2	remain	to-infinitive	Denis not said here			with Tephany	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not listen	would	Denis				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	Tephany		last	angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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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