The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 66

But Paul refused to listen to all her entreaties, and declared that he was not afraid of the dragon, and did not care how many heads he had; and he sat down calmly to wait for him.

Who acts: Paul · What happens: refuse, not listen, declare, not be, not care, have · To what, where: many heads

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul), 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	_	3 refused	cc
2	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 declared	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 listen	mark
5	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refused	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 entreaties	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 entreaties	det:predet
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 entreaties	nmod:poss
9	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 listen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 declared	cc
12	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 afraid	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 afraid	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 afraid	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 afraid	advmod
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 declared	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 dragon	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dragon	det
20	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afraid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 care	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 care	cc
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 care	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 care	advmod
25	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 declared	conj
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 many	advmod
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heads	amod
28	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 care	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 heads	acl:relcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sat	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 declared	conj
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 sat	compound:prt
36	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	34 sat	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 wait	mark
38	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sat	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wait	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Paul			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not listen	to-infinitive	Paul not said here		to maiden's entreaties	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to entreaty=Theme
3	declare speech: other	past				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	Paul		of the dragon; afraid property	tree rules
5	not care	past · do-support		many heads		tree rules
6	have	past	Paul	many heads not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	sit down	past	Paul		calmly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	wait	to-infinitive	Paul not said here		for dragon	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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