The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 95
After a little persuasion the maiden consented, but only on condition that she was allowed first to put on her dress.
Who acts: condition, girl · What happens: consent, allow, put · To what, where: persuasion maiden, girl, dress
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 (condition, girl), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 persuasion | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 persuasion | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 persuasion | amod |
| 4 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | compound |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 maiden | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 condition | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 condition | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 condition | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 condition | case |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | appos |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 allowed | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 allowed | aux:pass |
| 16 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 condition | acl:relcl |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 allowed | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 put | mark |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 allowed | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 dress | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dress | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | the persuasion maiden not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | condition not said here | girl | first property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl's dress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination |
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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