The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 20
He will refuse it to you a long time, but in the end he will grant it to you.”
Who acts: snake · What happens: refuse, grant · To what, where: Language, you, end
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 refuse | aux |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refuse | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grant | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 grant | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grant | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 grant | aux |
| 17 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refuse | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | future | snake | Language | you | time | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | grant | future | snake | Language | you | in the end | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Goal |
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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