The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 55

He listened unwillingly, feeling sure it was no use, but she begged so hard that in the end he consented, and having chosen her arms, she rode away.

Who acts: father, adventure, sister · What happens: listen, feel, be, beg, consent, choose · To what, where: use, end, arms

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, adventure, sister), 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 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	2 listened	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct
5	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 listened	advcl
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 use	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 use	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 use	det
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sure	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 begged	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 hard	advmod
16	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 begged	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 consented	mark
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 consented	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 consented	nsubj
22	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 begged	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chosen	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 chosen	cc
25	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 chosen	aux
26	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 listened	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 chosen	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rode	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rode	nsubj
31	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	parataxis
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 rode	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	father			unwillingly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	feel	gerund	father not said here			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	adventure	no use			tree rules
4	beg speech: request	past	sister			hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	consent	past	father		in the end		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	choose	gerund · perfect		sister's arms			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
7	ride away	past	sister			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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