The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 92

But after that he came again many times and at last I consented to marry him, but the question was how was I to escape from my tower.

Who acts: conversation, I, question · What happens: come, consent, marry, be · To what, where: last, conversation, tower

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, I, question), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 came	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 consented	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 consented	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 consented	nsubj
13	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 marry	mark
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 consented	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 marry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 escape	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 escape	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 question	det
20	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 escape	nsubj:outer
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 escape	cop
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 escape	advmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 escape	cop
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 escape	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 escape	mark
26	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 tower	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tower	nmod:poss
29	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 escape	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	conversation			after that; again; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	consent	past	I		last			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	marry	to-infinitive	I not said here	conversation				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	is	past	the question		my tower		escape property	tree rules

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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