The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 38
Gon entreated his master to set matters right by buying Koma, but her mistress would not part from her.
Who acts: Gon, mistress · What happens: entreat, set, buy, not part · To what, where: master, matters, Koma
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Gon, mistress), 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 | Gon | Gon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 entreated | nsubj |
| 2 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entreated | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 entreated | advcl |
| 7 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 buying | mark |
| 10 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 11 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 buying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 part | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 part | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 part | advmod |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entreated | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 part | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | Gon | Gon's master | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | Gon not said here | matters | right property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient matter=Result | |||
| 3 | buy | gerund | Gon not said here | Koma | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koma=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not part | would | Koma's mistress | from Koma | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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