The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 103

Moved by pity for her husband, the Countess at last found out the cause of his illness, and entreated him to allow himself to be cured.

Who acts: husband · What happens: move, find out, entreat, allow, cure, cause · To what, where: cause, husband, illness

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	Moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 pity	case
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moved	obl
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 found	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Countess	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Countess	det
9	Countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 husband	appos
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Countess	nmod
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Moved	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 found	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cause	det
15	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 illness	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 illness	nmod:poss
18	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cause	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 entreated	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 entreated	cc
21	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entreated	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 allow	mark
24	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 entreated	xcomp
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 allow	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 cured	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 cured	aux:pass
28	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 allow	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	move	participle				by pity	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by pity=Trajectory
2	find out	past	instant's husband	the cause of husband's illness			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
3	entreat	past	instant's husband not said here	husband			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	allow	to-infinitive	instant's husband not said here		husband		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
5	cure	to-infinitive · passive	instant's husband not said here				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»
6	cause			husband's illness			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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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