The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 131

She did not believe him very much, but he continued to assure her that it was quite true, till at last she gave in and went with him.

Who acts: cow, man, money · What happens: not believe, continue, assure, be, give in, go · To what, where: man, cow

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, man, money), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 believe	advmod
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 believe	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 continued	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 assure	mark
13	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	xcomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 assure	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 true	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 true	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 true	advmod
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 assure	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 last	case
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 true	conj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 last	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 gave	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gave	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not believe	past · do-support	cow	man			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	continue	past	man				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	assure	to-infinitive	man not said here		cow		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	money			true property	tree rules
5	be		money not said here				tree rules
6	give in	past	cow				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	cow not said here			with man	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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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