The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 14

The young man tried to win a smile from her by telling of all the beautiful things she should have as his wife, but Tephany did not listen to him, and looked about to see if there was any means by which she could escape.

Who acts: young man, priest, Tephany · What happens: try, win, tell, have, not listen, look · To what, where: smile, beautiful things, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, priest, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 win	mark
6	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 smile	det
8	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 win	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 win	obj
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 telling	mark
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 win	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 things	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 things	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 telling	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 things	acl:relcl
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 wife	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 listen	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 listen	cc
26	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 listen	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 listen	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 listen	advmod
29	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 listen	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 looked	cc
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
35	about	about	ADV	_	34 looked	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 see	mark
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 looked	advcl
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 was	mark
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 was	expl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 means	nsubj
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 means	nsubj
42	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 see	ccomp
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 escape	obl
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 escape	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 escape	aux
47	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 means	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	the young man				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	a smile			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent smile=Beneficiary her=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the young man not said here			of all beautiful things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	should	priest	all beautiful things not said here		as man's wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	not listen	past · do-support	Tephany		man		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
6	look	past	the young man not said here			about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	see	to-infinitive	the young man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	escape	could	Tephany				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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