The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 28

His mother answered that it was a whim, and nobody could persuade her to lay it aside; whereat the young man laughed, but kept his thoughts to himself.

Who acts: mother, sight, nobody, young man, Hatschihime · What happens: answer, be, persuade, lay, laugh, keep · To what, where: whim, girl, sight, thoughts, Hatschihime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, sight, nobody, young man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 whim	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 whim	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 whim	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whim	det
8	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 persuade	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 persuade	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 persuade	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 persuade	aux
13	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 persuade	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lay	mark
16	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 persuade	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	obj
18	aside	aside	ADV	_	16 lay	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 laughed	punct
20	whereat	whereat	ADV	PronType=Int	24 laughed	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laughed	nsubj
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kept	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 kept	cc
27	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laughed	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 thoughts	nmod:poss
29	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kept	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 himself	case
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 kept	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Hatschihime's mother				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	sight	a whim			tree rules
3	persuade	could	nobody	girl			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	lay	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	sight		aside property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
5	laugh	past	the young man			whereat property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	keep	past	the young man not said here	Hatschihime's thoughts	Hatschihime		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
7	think		Hatschihime				nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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