The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 84

But Blanchette promised over and over again that she would never more stop to listen to a Wolf, so that at last the mother forgave her.

Who acts: Blanchette, mother · What happens: promise, stop, listen, forgive · To what, where: last, Blanchette

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blanchette, mother), 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	_	3 promised	cc
2	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 promised	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 over	cc
6	over	over	ADV	_	4 over	conj
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 promised	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 stop	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stop	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stop	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 stop	amod
13	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 listen	mark
15	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Wolf	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Wolf	det
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 listen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 last	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 last	mark
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 listen	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forgave	nsubj
26	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 last	acl:relcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 forgave	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Blanchette			again	over property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	would	Blanchette					tree rules
3	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	Blanchette not said here		last		to a Wolf	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wolf=Theme
4	forgive	past	the mother	Blanchette				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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