The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 49

Provoked by his words--for we all know that curiosity is as deeply inborn in every woman as even the love of talking--Grannonia implored the fox to tell her what the birds had said.

Who acts: curiosity, love, Grannonia, fox · What happens: provoke, know, be, talk, implore, tell · To what, where: fox, Grannonia, birds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, love, Grannonia, fox), 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	Provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 words	nmod:poss
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Provoked	obl
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 we	case
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Provoked	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 inborn	mark
11	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 inborn	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 inborn	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 deeply	advmod
14	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	15 inborn	advmod
15	inborn	inborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 know	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 woman	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 inborn	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 love	case
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 love	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 love	det
22	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 inborn	obl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 talking	mark
24	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 love	acl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 implored	punct
26	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 implored	nsubj
27	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 inborn	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fox	det
29	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 implored	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 implored	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 said	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 birds	det
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 said	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	aux
37	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tell	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Provoked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	provoke	participle				by fox's words	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	present				for we	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	curiosity			in every woman; as the love; deeply, inborn property	tree rules
4	talk	gerund	the love not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	implore	past	Grannonia		the fox		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Grannonia not said here		Grannonia		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the birds			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner
8	word		fox				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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