The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 118

On each side of the way the rows of flowers began to praise Petru, and to try and persuade him to pick some of them and make himself a wreath.

Who acts: rows, Petru · What happens: begin, praise, try, persuade, pick, make · To what, where: side, Petru, some

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rows, Petru), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 side	det
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 side	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rows	det
8	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 began	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rows	nmod
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 praise	mark
13	praise	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 praise	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 try	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 try	mark
18	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 persuade	cc
20	persuade	persuade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 try	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 persuade	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pick	mark
23	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 persuade	xcomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 pick	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 some	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pick	conj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 make	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wreath	det
31	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	the rows of flowers		each side of the way	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	praise	to-infinitive	the rows of flowers not said here	Petru		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petru=Theme
3	try	to-infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	persuade	infinitive		Petru		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
5	pick	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	some		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
6	make	infinitive	Petru not said here	Petru		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary wreath=Product

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/118/