The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 47
Thus encouraged, the Prince persevered in his refusal, and at length the old Fairy in a fury cried:
Who acts: Prince, old Fairy · What happens: encourage, persevere, cry, refuse · To what, where: refusal, length
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, old Fairy), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 encouraged | advmod |
| 2 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 persevered | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 persevered | nsubj |
| 6 | persevered | persevere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 encouraged | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 refusal | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 refusal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 persevered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cried | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fairy | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Fairy | amod |
| 16 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fury | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fury | det |
| 19 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Fairy | nmod |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 encouraged | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encourage | past | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | persevere | past | the Prince | Prince's refusal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in refusal=Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the old Fairy in a fury | length | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | ||||
| 4 | refuse | Prince | nom refusal «communication transitive»: 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 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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