The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 47

At first the Princess would not promise, but the nurse showed her so many good reasons for it that in the end she agreed to be amiable to her step-mother.

Who acts: Princess, nurse · What happens: not promise, show, agree, be · To what, where: many good reasons, Princess, end

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, nurse), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 promise	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promise	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 promise	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 promise	advmod
7	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 showed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 showed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nurse	det
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showed	nsubj
12	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 promise	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 showed	iobj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reasons	amod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reasons	amod
17	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 showed	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reasons	nmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 agreed	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 agreed	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 agreed	nsubj
25	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 showed	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 amiable	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 amiable	cop
28	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 agreed	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 mother	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
31	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mother	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 step	punct
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 amiable	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not promise speech: promise	would	the Princess					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	show	past	the nurse	many good reasons	Princess		for much	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient reason=Topic
3	agree speech: agree	past	nurse			in the end		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	nurse not said here				to Princess's step mother; amiable 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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