The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 22

She would try once more she said, and her son must lead his visitor into the armoury, where hung every kind of weapon used all over the world--some plain and bare, others ornamented with precious stones--and beg her to make choice of one of them.

Who acts: woman, son · What happens: try, say, lead, hang, use, ornament · To what, where: visitor, armoury, kind, world, plain others, woman · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, son), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 try	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 said	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 try	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lead	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lead	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lead	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lead	aux
13	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 visitor	nmod:poss
15	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lead	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 armoury	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 armoury	det
18	armoury	armoury	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lead	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hung	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 hung	advmod
21	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 armoury	acl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 weapon	case
25	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
26	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 kind	acl
27	all	all	ADV	_	30 world	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 used	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 others	punct
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 others	det
33	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 others	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bare	cc
35	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plain	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 others	punct
37	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 armoury	nmod
38	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 others	acl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 stones	case
40	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stones	amod
41	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ornamented	obl
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 beg	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 beg	cc
44	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 beg	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 make	mark
47	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 beg	advcl
48	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 make	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 one	case
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 choice	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 them	case
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 one	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	would	woman					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	lead	must	woman's son	son's visitor		the armoury some plain others		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme into armoury=Destination
4	hang	participle		every kind of weapon				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
5	use	participle		every kind of weapon not said here		the world		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	ornament	participle		some plain others not said here			with precious stones	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme
7	beg speech: request	infinitive	woman not said here		woman			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
8	make	to-infinitive	woman not said here	choice of one of stones				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/22/