Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 117

However, when he would take no refusal, but implored her to have pity on him, promising her everything she could desire, she replied, "Give me the eyes of your seven Queens, and then perhaps I may believe you mean what you say."

Who acts: king, woman, you · What happens: take, implore, have, promise, desire, reply · To what, where: refusal, woman, pity, everything, eyes, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, woman, you), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 take	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 refusal	det
8	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 implored	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 implored	cc
11	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 implored	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 implored	xcomp
15	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 promising	punct
19	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 have	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 everything	nmod:poss
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 promising	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 desire	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 desire	aux
24	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 everything	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 replied	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 replied	nsubj
27	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 implored	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Give	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Give	punct
30	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 replied	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 Give	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 eyes	det
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Give	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Queens	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Queens	nmod:poss
36	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 Queens	nummod
37	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 eyes	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 believe	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 believe	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 believe	advmod
41	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	44 believe	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 believe	nsubj
43	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 believe	aux
44	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 believe	obj
46	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 believe	xcomp
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 say	obj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 say	nsubj
49	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 mean	ccomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	king	no refusal			however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refusal=Theme
2	implore	past	king not said here	woman				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	to-infinitive	king not said here	pity			on king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
4	promise speech: promise	gerund	king not said here	everything				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
5	desire	could	woman					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	reply speech: assert	past	woman					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	give in a quote	infinitive		the eyes of your seven Queens	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient eye=Theme
8	believe in a quote	may	woman	you		then	perhaps property	tree rules
9	mean in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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