The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 116

He was unwilling at first, but the maiden insisted.

Who acts: angel, maiden · What happens: unwill, insist

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unwilling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unwilling	aux
3	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 unwilling	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 insisted	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 insisted	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 insisted	nsubj
10	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unwilling	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unwilling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unwill	past · progressive	angel						tree rules
2	insist speech: other	past	the maiden						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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