The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 55
Then the King coaxed and entreated his daughter to go with Jack and so save both their lives.
Who acts: King · What happens: coax, entreat, go, save · To what, where: daughter, lives
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 coaxed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coaxed | nsubj |
| 4 | coaxed | coax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 entreated | cc |
| 6 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coaxed | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entreated | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 entreated | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Jack | case |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 save | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 save | advmod |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 lives | det:predet |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lives | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 save | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coaxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coax | past | the King | then | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | entreat | past | the King not said here | King's daughter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the King not said here | with Jack | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with jack=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | the King not said here | guards's lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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