Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 21

I am again asked to be godmother, and, as the child has a white ring round its neck, I cannot refuse.’

Who acts: I, child · What happens: ask, be, have, not refuse · To what, where: I, godmother, white ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, child), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	aux:pass
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
4	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 godmother	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 godmother	cop
7	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 has	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 has	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ring	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ring	amod
17	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 neck	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neck	nmod:poss
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ring	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 refuse	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 refuse	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 refuse	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 refuse	advmod
25	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 refuse	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 refuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · passive		I	again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	godmother			tree rules
3	have	present	the child	a white ring		round child's neck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
4	not refuse	can	I				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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