The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 142
‘Dear lady,’ entreated Elsa again.
Who acts: Dear lady · What happens: entreat · To what, where: Elsa
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear lady), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entreated | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 6 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 entreated | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 entreated | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | Dear lady | Elsa | again | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elsa=Recipient |
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.
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