The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 83
At last she saw that her entreaties were vain, and agreed to marry him, as he wished.
Who acts: light, entreaties, youth · What happens: see, be, agree, marry, wish · To what, where: last, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, entreaties, youth), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 vain | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 7 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 vain | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 vain | cop |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 agreed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 agreed | cc |
| 12 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agreed | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 marry | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wished | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 wished | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wished | nsubj |
| 19 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 agreed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | light | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | light's entreaties | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 5 | wish | past | youth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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