The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 75
The merchant accepted this proposal, though he did not really think any of his daughters could be persuaded to come.
Who acts: merchant, any · What happens: accept, not think, persuade, come · To what, where: proposal, any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, any), 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 | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 proposal | det |
| 5 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 think | advmod |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 think | advmod |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 accepted | conj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 persuaded | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 daughters | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 any | nmod |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 persuaded | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 19 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 think | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 persuaded | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the merchant | this proposal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | merchant | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | persuade | could · passive | any | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | any not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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