The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 16

He refused to accept his teacher's philosophical tenets on the mere ground of their traditional authority.

Who acts: cause · What happens: refuse, not accept · To what, where: philosophical tenets, mere ground

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cause), 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	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 accept	mark
4	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teacher	nmod:poss
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tenets	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 teacher	case
8	philosophical	philosophical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tenets	amod
9	tenets	tenet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accept	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
12	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ground	amod
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accept	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 authority	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 authority	nmod:poss
16	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 authority	amod
17	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ground	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	cause						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not accept	to-infinitive	cause not said here	cause's teacher's philosophical tenets		the mere ground of tenets's traditional authority			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenet=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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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