The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 43

In order to set the Prince of the Air’s mind at rest she began by being very gracious to him, so that when she begged that her captivity might be a little lightened she should not be refused.

Who acts: Rosalie, Air · What happens: set, begin, be, beg, lighten, not refuse · To what, where: Prince, rest, captivity, Rosalie

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosalie, Air), 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	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 set	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 set	mark
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begged	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 mind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Air	det
9	Air	Air	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mind	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Air	case
11	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 rest	case
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rest	acl:relcl
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 gracious	mark
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 gracious	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 gracious	advmod
19	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 began	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gracious	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 begged	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 begged	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begged	nsubj
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 lightened	mark
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 captivity	nmod:poss
30	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lightened	nsubj:pass
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 lightened	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 lightened	aux:pass
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 little	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lightened	obl:unmarked
35	lightened	lighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 begged	ccomp
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 refused	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 refused	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 refused	advmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 refused	aux:pass
40	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 lightened	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	to-infinitive	Rosalie not said here	the Prince of the Air's mind		rest		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme at rest=Destination
2	begin	past	Rosalie	rest not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality
3	is	gerund	Rosalie not said here		Prince		gracious property	tree rules
4	beg speech: request	past	Rosalie					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lighten	might · passive		Rosalie's captivity			a little obl:unmarked	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	not refuse	should · passive		Rosalie				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	mind		the Air					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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