The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 65
Still the emperor hesitated, but the girl petted and coaxed him till at last he said,
Who acts: emperor, girl · What happens: hesitate, pet, coax, say · To what, where: emperor, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (emperor, girl), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 hesitated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hesitated | nsubj |
| 4 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 petted | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 petted | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 petted | nsubj |
| 9 | petted | pet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hesitated | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 coaxed | cc |
| 11 | coaxed | coax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 petted | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 coaxed | obj |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coaxed | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 last | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | participle | the emperor | still | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pet | past | the girl | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | coax | past | the girl not said here | emperor | till last | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | emperor | last not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent last=Topic |
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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