The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 86
She implored Houarn not to leave her, but he would listen to nothing.
Who acts: girl, Houarn · What happens: implore, not leave, listen · To what, where: Houarn, girl
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 (girl, Houarn), 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 | 2 implored | nsubj |
| 2 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 implored | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 leave | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 implored | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 listen | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 listen | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 listen | aux |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 implored | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | case |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 listen | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | past | girl | Houarn | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent houarn=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not leave | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | listen | would | Houarn | to nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=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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