The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 29

His wife did all she could to convince him she was extremely glad of his speedy return.

Who acts: wife, floor, beard · What happens: do, convince, be, return · To what, where: all, beard

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, floor, beard), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 did	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 could	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 all	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 convince	mark
8	convince	convince	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 convince	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 glad	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	cop
12	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	13 glad	advmod
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 convince	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 return	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 return	nmod:poss
16	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 return	amod
17	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glad	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	beard's wife	all		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	convince	to-infinitive	beard's wife not said here	beard		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	is	past	floor		of beard's speedy return; extremely, glad property	tree rules
4	return		beard			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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