Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 39
The fact was, he could not refuse the request, on account of the dwarf’s third gift.
Who acts: fact · What happens: not refuse, account · To what, where: request, dwarf
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fact | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 refuse | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 refuse | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 refuse | advmod |
| 8 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 request | det |
| 10 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refuse | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 account | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 account | case |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ’s | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dwarf | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dwarf | det |
| 16 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 account | nmod |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 refuse | conj |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 gift | amod |
| 19 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ’s | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | could | the fact | the request | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | account | the dwarf | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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