The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 29
He stopped to listen in spite of Charming’s enemies, who tried to persuade him to have nothing more to do with the traitor.
Who acts: king, enemies · What happens: stop, listen, try, persuade, have, do · To what, where: king, nothing, enemies
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, enemies), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 listen | mark |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stopped | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spite | case |
| 6 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 enemies | case |
| 8 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Charming | case |
| 10 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spite | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enemies | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 persuade | mark |
| 15 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 persuade | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 persuade | xcomp |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 nothing | amod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 nothing | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 traitor | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 traitor | det |
| 25 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | king | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | king not said here | in spite of Charming's enemies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | Charming's enemies | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | Charming's enemies not said here | king | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | king not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | king not said here | nothing not said here | with the traitor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | spite | Charming's enemies | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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