The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 122

For a long while the old man refused to have anything to do with such a wicked scheme; but his son talked him over in the end, and they killed the oxen as they had killed the sheep and the pigs.

Who acts: old man, son, man · What happens: refuse, not have, do, talk over, kill · To what, where: anything, Herdsman, end, oxen, man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, son, man), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 long	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 refused	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 refused	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	nsubj
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refused	xcomp
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 anything	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 scheme	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 scheme	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 scheme	det
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scheme	amod
18	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 talked	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 talked	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 son	nmod:poss
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 talked	nsubj
23	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 refused	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 talked	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	23 talked	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 end	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 talked	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 killed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 killed	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 killed	nsubj
32	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 talked	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 oxen	det
34	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 killed	obj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 killed	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 killed	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 killed	aux
38	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 killed	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sheep	det
40	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 killed	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 pigs	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 pigs	det
43	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sheep	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the old man			for a long	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not have	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	anything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	anything not said here		with such wicked scheme	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk over	past	son's son	Herdsman	in the end		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	kill	past	man	the oxen			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxen=Theme
6	kill	past · perfect · passive		man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer sheep=Result

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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