The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 95

But the Fairy, who knew all about everything, said to Rosimond, when he was imploring her to accept the ring:

Who acts: Fairy, Rosimond · What happens: know, say, implore, accept · To what, where: Rosimond, Fairy, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Rosimond), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fairy	acl:relcl
7	all	all	ADV	_	6 knew	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 knew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Fairy	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Rosimond	case
13	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 imploring	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 imploring	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 imploring	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 imploring	aux
18	imploring	implore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 imploring	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 accept	mark
21	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 imploring	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 accept	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Fairy			about everything; all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about everything=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy		Rosimond		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to rosimond=Recipient
3	implore	past · progressive	Rosimond	Fairy			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	accept	to-infinitive	Rosimond not said here	the ring			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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 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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