The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 56

My brother took such a fancy to him that he pressed him to spend a couple of days with us, which, after a little hesitation, the stranger consented to do.

Who acts: brother, stranger · What happens: take, press, spend, consent, do · To what, where: fancy, stranger, brother, couple

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, stranger), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fancy	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fancy	det
6	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 pressed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pressed	nsubj
11	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pressed	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 spend	mark
14	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pressed	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 couple	det
16	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spend	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 days	case
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 couple	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 spend	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 spend	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hesitation	punct
24	after	after	ADP	_	27 hesitation	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hesitation	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hesitation	amod
27	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spend	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 consented	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stranger	det
30	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 consented	nsubj
31	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hesitation	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 consented	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	My brother	such fancy	stranger			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to he=Destination
2	press	past	stranger	brother				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	spend	to-infinitive	stranger not said here	a couple of days		after a little hesitation	with us	tree rules
4	consent	past	the stranger					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive	the stranger not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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