The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 36

At last he persuaded them to let him lie quietly in his room, where no one came to trouble him.

Who acts: Saphir, one · What happens: persuade, let, lie, come · To what, where: doctors, last, Saphir, room

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saphir, one), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 persuaded	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 persuaded	nsubj
4	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 persuaded	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 persuaded	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	9 lie	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 room	nmod:poss
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 came	advmod
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 room	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 trouble	mark
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 trouble	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	Saphir	doctors = doctor	last		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	let	to-infinitive	Saphir not said here	Saphir			tree rules
3	lie	infinitive	Saphir not said here		Saphir's room	quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
4	come	past	no one				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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