The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 151

But his wife rose up and went to him, and said, ‘Master, do not, I pray you, reject them,’ and she entreated long, till the sultan granted her prayer, for she loved the six elder ones more than her last one.

Who acts: wife, I, sultan · What happens: rise up, go, say, not do, pray, reject · To what, where: child, Master, you, dates, prayer, six elder ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I, sultan), 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	_	4 rose	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 rose	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Master	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Master	punct
15	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Master	punct
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 do	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pray	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 pray	nsubj
21	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 pray	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reject	punct
24	reject	reject	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 pray	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reject	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 entreated	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 entreated	nsubj
30	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 entreated	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 granted	punct
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 granted	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sultan	det
35	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 granted	nsubj
36	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 entreated	parataxis
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 prayer	nmod:poss
38	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 granted	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 loved	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 loved	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 loved	nsubj
42	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 granted	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ones	det
44	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 ones	nummod
45	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 ones	amod
46	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 loved	obj
47	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 ones	amod
48	than	than	ADP	_	51 one	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 one	nmod:poss
50	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 one	amod
51	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 more	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	child's wife				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	child's wife not said here		child		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	child's wife not said here	Master			tree rules
4	not do	infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pray	present	I	you			tree rules
6	reject	infinitive	I not said here	dates = date			vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	entreat	past	wife			long property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	grant	past	the sultan	wife's prayer			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
9	love	past	wife	the six elder ones			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
10	pray		wife				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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