The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 137

But his mother had soothed him with soft words, assuring him that this was not so.

Who acts: this · What happens: soothe, assure, not be · To what, where: mother, Sun

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 soothed	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soothed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soothed	aux
5	soothed	soothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soothed	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 soothed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 assuring	punct
11	assuring	assure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 soothed	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 assuring	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	mark
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 so	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 so	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 so	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	11 assuring	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 soothed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	soothe	past · perfect · passive		Sun's mother		with soft words	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
2	assure	gerund			Sun		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	not is	past	this			so 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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