More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 140
His heart sank within him, but he could not refuse, and so lose his great name.
Who acts: heart, John · What happens: sink, not refuse, lose, name · To what, where: great name
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, John), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sank | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refuse | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 refuse | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 refuse | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 refuse | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 refuse | advmod |
| 11 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sank | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lose | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 lose | advmod |
| 15 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 refuse | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 name | amod |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lose | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | John's heart | within John | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not refuse | could | heart | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lose | infinitive | heart not said here | John's great name | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | name | John | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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