The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 21

However, at last I persuaded them that to do nothing whatever would be the only thing that would suit me, and that if they really wanted to be kind to me, they would let me go to bed and to sleep, and not tease me about doing anything.

Who acts: I, whatever, only thing, King, me · What happens: persuade, do, be, suit, want, let · To what, where: King, last, nothing, only thing, me, bed

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I, whatever, only thing, King), 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	_	6 persuaded	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 persuaded	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 persuaded	nsubj
6	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 persuaded	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 persuaded	advcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 do	obj
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 thing	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thing	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	acl:relcl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 suit	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 suit	aux
20	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thing	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 suit	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wanted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wanted	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 wanted	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 wanted	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
27	really	really	ADV	_	28 wanted	advmod
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 persuaded	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 kind	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 kind	cop
31	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wanted	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 kind	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 let	aux
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 persuaded	parataxis
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 bed	case
41	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sleep	cc
43	to	to	PART	_	44 sleep	mark
44	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 go	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 tease	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 tease	cc
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 tease	advmod
48	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	conj
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 tease	obj
50	about	about	SCONJ	_	51 doing	mark
51	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 tease	advcl
52	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	51 doing	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	I	King		last	however property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	is a	would	whatever	the only thing				tree rules
4	suit	would	the only thing	me				tree rules
5	want a condition, not said to happen	past	King					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
6	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here		me		kind property	tree rules
7	let	would	King	me				tree rules
8	go	infinitive	me not said here			bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
9	sleep	to-infinitive	me not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	not tease	infinitive	King not said here	me				vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
11	do	gerund	King not said here	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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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