The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 91

They were even lovelier than she expected, and when the merchant besought her to come on board, and inspect some that he thought were finer still, her curiosity was too great to refuse, and she went.

Who acts: slaves, mistress, merchant, curiosity · What happens: be, expect, beseech, come, inspect, think · To what, where: mistress, board, some · 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, merchant, curiosity), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lovelier	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lovelier	cop
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 lovelier	advmod
4	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 expected	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 expected	nsubj
7	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lovelier	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 besought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 besought	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 besought	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 merchant	det
12	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 besought	nsubj
13	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lovelier	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 besought	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 besought	xcomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 board	case
18	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 inspect	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 inspect	cc
21	inspect	inspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 inspect	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 thought	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 inspect	advcl
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 finer	cop
27	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 thought	xcomp
28	still	still	ADV	_	34 great	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 still	punct
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 curiosity	nmod:poss
31	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 great	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 great	cop
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 great	advmod
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thought	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 refuse	mark
36	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 great	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 besought	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lovelier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	slaves = slave				lovely property	tree rules
2	expect	past	mistress					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	beseech	past	the merchant	mistress				tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here		board			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Location
5	inspect	infinitive	the merchant not said here	some				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	merchant					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	merchant not said here				fine property	tree rules
8	is	past	mistress's curiosity			still	great property	tree rules
9	refuse	to-infinitive	mistress's curiosity not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
10	go	past	mistress					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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