The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 75

She stopped before the grotto and bade Lolotte bring me out to her, at which she cried worse than ever, and kissed me a dozen times, but she dared not refuse.

Who acts: Mirlifiche · What happens: stop, bring out, cry, kiss, not dare, not refuse · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mirlifiche), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 grotto	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grotto	det
5	grotto	grotto	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bade	cc
7	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grotto	conj
8	Lolotte	Lolotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bade	appos
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stopped	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bring	iobj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 bring	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 cried	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	parataxis
19	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 cried	xcomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 ever	case
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 worse	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kissed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kissed	cc
24	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cried	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 kissed	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dozen	det
27	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 kissed	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dared	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 dared	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dared	nsubj
32	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 dared	advmod
34	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 dared	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Mirlifiche			before the grotto and bade		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	bring out	infinitive	Mirlifiche not said here		me		to Mirlifiche	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	Mirlifiche				bad property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Location
4	kiss	past	Mirlifiche not said here	me		time		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
5	not dare	past	Mirlifiche					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not refuse	infinitive	Mirlifiche not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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