Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 13

They offered her a cow in the place of her own cow, but she refused to give it.

Who acts: things, Hag · What happens: offer, refuse, not give · To what, where: cow, Hag, place

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, Hag), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 cow	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cow	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cow	amod
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 refused	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 refused	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 refused	nsubj
16	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 refused	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	offer	past	things = thing	a cow	Hag	the place of Hag's own cow	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal cow=Theme
2	refuse	past	Hag				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not give	to-infinitive	Hag not said here	place			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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