The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 63
But the bride did all she could to pacify him, and begged hard, saying: ‘After all he is my husband, and I love him with all my heart,’ so that at length he gave in.
Who acts: bride, brother, I · What happens: do, pacify, beg, say, be, love · To what, where: all, brother, husband, length · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, brother, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bride | det |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pacify | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pacify | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pacify | mark |
| 9 | pacify | pacify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 all | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pacify | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 begged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 begged | cc |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 did | conj |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 begged | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 begged | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 all | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 all | punct |
| 19 | After | after | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 saying | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 husband | cop |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 all | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 love | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 love | nsubj |
| 28 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 love | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 heart | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 heart | det:predet |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 love | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ’ | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 39 length | case |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 length | case |
| 39 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 gave | nsubj |
| 41 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 length | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 gave | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the bride | all | so length | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | pacify | could | bride | brother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | participle | the bride not said here | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the bride not said here | all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent all=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | brother | my husband | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love | present | I | brother | with my heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | give in | past | brother | length not said here | tree rules |
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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