The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 29

However, she answered graciously that she accepted with pleasure, which encouraged the Prince to entreat further that she would not show any favour to his adversary.

Who acts: Princess, pleasure, Prince · What happens: answer, accept, encourage, entreat, not show · To what, where: Prince, favour, adversary

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, pleasure, Prince), 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	_	4 answered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 accepted	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 accepted	nsubj
8	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 pleasure	case
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 encouraged	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 encouraged	nsubj
13	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pleasure	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 encouraged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 entreat	mark
17	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 encouraged	xcomp
18	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 entreat	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 show	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 show	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 show	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 show	advmod
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 entreat	advcl
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 favour	det
25	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 adversary	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 adversary	nmod:poss
28	adversary	adversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Princess			graciously, however property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	accept	past	Princess			with pleasure	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	encourage	past	pleasure	the Prince			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
4	entreat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here			far property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not show	would	Princess	any favour	Prince's adversary		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Topic to adversary=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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