The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 135

And first she determined to learn the secret of his power, and, with flattering, caressing words, she tried to coax him to tell her how he was so clever that there was nothing in the world that he could not do.

Who acts: feast, husband · What happens: determine, learn, flatter, caress, try, coax · To what, where: secret, words, husband, feast, nothing, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, husband), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 determined	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 determined	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 determined	nsubj
4	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 learn	mark
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 determined	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 secret	det
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learn	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 power	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 secret	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tried	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 flattering	mark
16	flattering	flatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 tried	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 caressing	punct
18	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 flattering	conj
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 caressing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flattering	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tried	nsubj
22	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 determined	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 coax	mark
24	coax	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tried	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 coax	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 coax	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 clever	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 clever	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 clever	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 clever	advmod
33	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 nothing	amod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 was	mark
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 was	expl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 nothing	cop
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 tell	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nothing	nmod
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 do	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 do	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 do	advmod
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	past	feast				first property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	learn	to-infinitive	feast not said here	the secret of husband's power				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic
3	flatter	gerund	feast not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	caress	gerund	feast not said here	words				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Experiencer
5	try	past	feast					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	coax not said to happen	to-infinitive	feast not said here	husband				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	feast not said here		feast			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
8	is	past	husband				clever property	tree rules
9	is a	past		nothing		the world		tree rules
10	not do	could	husband					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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