The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 50

One morning the empress sat on the edge of her husband’s bed, and began to coax him with all sorts of pretty ways.

Who acts: empress · What happens: sit, begin, coax, sort · To what, where: edge, husband, pretty ways

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (empress), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 empress	det
4	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 bed	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bed	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 husband	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 coax	mark
18	coax	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 coax	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 sorts	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 sorts	det
22	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 coax	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 ways	case
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ways	amod
25	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sorts	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the empress		the edge of craft's husband's bed	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
2	begin	past	the empress not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	coax	to-infinitive	the empress not said here	husband			with all sorts of pretty ways	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	sort			pretty ways				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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