The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 36

The woman, for her part, refused to take it back, declaring it was perfectly good, but the baker would have nothing to do with it. "

Who acts: woman, part, baker · What happens: refuse, not take back, declare, be, have, do · To what, where: part, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, part, baker), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 part	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 part	nmod:poss
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refused	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 declaring	punct
14	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 take	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 good	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
17	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 declaring	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 baker	det
22	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refused	parataxis
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 have	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the woman and woman's part			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not take back	to-infinitive	the woman and woman's part not said here	part		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	declare speech: other	gerund	the woman and woman's part not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	part		good, perfectly property	tree rules
5	have	would	the baker	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive	the baker not said here	nothing not said here	with baker	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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/36/