The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 22
The Fairy refused at first with a great show of firmness, but who could resist the tears and entreaties of anyone so pretty as Placida?
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: refuse, resist, show · To what, where: tears, firmness
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 refused | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 show | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 show | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 show | amod |
| 9 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 firmness | case |
| 11 | firmness | firmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 resist | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 resist | cc |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 resist | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 resist | aux |
| 16 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refused | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tears | det |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 resist | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 entreaties | cc |
| 20 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tears | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 anyone | case |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 entreaties | nmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 pretty | advmod |
| 24 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 16 resist | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 Placida | case |
| 26 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 pretty | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the Fairy | with a great show of firmness | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | resist | could | the tears and entreaties of anyone | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | firmness | nom show «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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