The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 111
But the girl (and she was a very pretty girl, though so shabbily dressed) begged so hard for one of them that at last he said:
Who acts: girl, deal · What happens: be, dress, beg, say · To what, where: pretty girl, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, deal), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 begged | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 girl | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 girl | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 girl | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 pretty | advmod |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dressed | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 dressed | mark |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 shabbily | advmod |
| 15 | shabbily | shabbily | ADV | _ | 16 dressed | advmod |
| 16 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 girl | acl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 dressed | punct |
| 18 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 hard | advmod |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 begged | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 begged | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 said | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 last | case |
| 27 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl | a pretty girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | a pretty girl not said here | shabbily property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the girl | for one of visitors; hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | deal | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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