The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 38

Then the old woman tried to coax the doggie with more pancakes and to terrify it with blows, but he barked on, always repeating the same words.

Who acts: old woman, doggie · What happens: try, coax, terrify, bark on, repeat · To what, where: doggie, crown, same words

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, doggie), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 coax	mark
7	coax	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doggie	det
9	doggie	doggie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coax	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 pancakes	case
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 pancakes	amod
12	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 coax	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 terrify	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 terrify	mark
15	terrify	terrify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 coax	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 terrify	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 blows	case
18	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 terrify	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 barked	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 barked	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 barked	nsubj
22	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 barked	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 repeating	punct
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 repeating	advmod
26	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 barked	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 words	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 words	amod
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 repeating	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the old woman		then		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	coax not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	the doggie		with more pancakes	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doggie=Patient
3	terrify	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	crown		with blows	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
4	bark on	past	doggie				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	repeat	gerund	doggie not said here	the same words		always property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality

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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