The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 96

He said much more, and at last persuaded the head cook to give him a trial.

Who acts: fellow · What happens: say, persuade, give · To what, where: more, head cook, last, trial, fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 persuaded	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 persuaded	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 persuaded	obl
9	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cook	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cook	compound
12	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 persuaded	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 persuaded	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 trial	det
17	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fellow	more			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic
2	persuade	past	fellow not said here	the head cook		last	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Patient
3	give	to-infinitive	fellow not said here	a trial	fellow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trial=Theme

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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