The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 136

At first he would tell her nothing; but once, when he was in a yielding mood, she approached him with a winning smile on her lovely face, and, speaking flattering words to him, she gave him a potion to drink, with a sweet, strong taste.

Who acts: husband, feast · What happens: tell, yield, be, approach, win, speak · To what, where: nothing, yielding mood, husband, flattering words, potion · 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 (husband, feast), 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 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tell	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nothing	nmod:poss
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 tell	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 once	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 once	cc
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 tell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mood	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 mood	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mood	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mood	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 mood	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mood	det
17	yielding	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 mood	amod
18	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 approached	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 approached	nsubj
21	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 approached	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 smile	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 smile	det
25	winning	win	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 smile	amod
26	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 approached	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 face	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 face	nmod:poss
29	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 face	amod
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smile	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 gave	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 gave	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 speaking	punct
34	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 gave	advcl
35	flattering	flatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 words	amod
36	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 speaking	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 speaking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 speaking	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 gave	nsubj
41	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 approached	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 gave	iobj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 potion	det
44	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gave	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 drink	mark
46	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 potion	acl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 taste	punct
48	with	with	ADP	_	53 taste	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 taste	det
50	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 taste	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sweet	punct
52	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 taste	amod
53	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gave	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	husband	nothing			once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient
2	yield	gerund						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	husband			a yielding mood		tree rules
4	approach	past	feast	husband			with a winning smile on feast's lovely face	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme with smile=Instrument
5	win	gerund						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	speak speech: other	gerund	feast not said here	flattering words	husband			tree rules
7	flatter	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	give	past	feast	a potion	husband		with a sweet strong taste	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient potion=Theme
9	drink	to-infinitive	feast not said here	a potion not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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