The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 77

Soon after the dragon came home, and the empress sat down near him, and began to coax and flatter him into a good humour, and at last she said:

Who acts: empress · What happens: come, sit down, begin, coax, flatter, say · To what, where: dragon, good humour, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (empress), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 dragon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 empress	det
10	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	near	near	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 coax	mark
19	coax	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flatter	cc
21	flatter	flatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 coax	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flatter	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 humour	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 humour	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 humour	amod
26	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flatter	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 said	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				after the dragon	home, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	the empress				near dragon	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location
3	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	coax	to-infinitive						vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	flatter	infinitive		dragon			into a good humour result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into humour=Result
6	say speech: assert	past	empress		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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