The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 200

The King of the Peacocks was so angry that he would hardly even grant them this favour, but at last he was persuaded to do so.

Who acts: King, accusation · What happens: be, grant, persuade, do · To what, where: favour, King, accusation, last

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, accusation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:1143): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 angry	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Peacocks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Peacocks	det
5	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 King	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 angry	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 angry	advmod
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 grant	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grant	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 grant	aux
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 grant	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 grant	advmod
14	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 angry	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grant	iobj
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 favour	det
17	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grant	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 persuaded	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 persuaded	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 persuaded	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 persuaded	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 persuaded	aux:pass
24	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 angry	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 persuaded	xcomp
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 do	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King of the Peacocks				angry property	tree rules
2	grant	would	accusation	this favour	King		hardly property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal favour=Theme
3	persuade	past · passive		accusation		last		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	do	to-infinitive	accusation not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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