The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 40

He told her all that happened, and because she was pleased with him she took compassion on him, and said she would help him.

Who acts: One, that, woman · What happens: tell, happen, be, take, say, help · To what, where: woman, compassion, One · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, that, woman), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 happened	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 happened	nsubj
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 pleased	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleased	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleased	cop
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 took	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleased	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
17	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 help	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 help	aux
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 help	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	One		woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past	that				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	woman			with One; pleased property	tree rules
4	take	past	woman	compassion		on One	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent compassion=Theme on he=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	help	would	woman		One		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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