The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 90

The slaves told their tale so well that their mistress insisted on going down to the shore and seeing the beautiful slippers for herself.

Who acts: slaves, mistress · What happens: tell, insist, go down, see · To what, where: tale, beautiful slippers · 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 (slaves, mistress), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slaves	det
2	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tale	nmod:poss
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 told	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 insisted	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mistress	nmod:poss
10	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 insisted	nsubj
11	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 insisted	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seeing	cc
19	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 going	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 slippers	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 slippers	amod
22	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seeing	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 herself	case
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 seeing	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the slaves		slaves's tale	well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
2	insist speech: other	participle	slaves's mistress				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	go down	gerund	slaves's mistress not said here			to the shore; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	see	gerund	slaves's mistress not said here	the beautiful slippers		for mistress	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slipper=Stimulus
5	tell		slaves = slave				nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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