Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 18

He refused to be rewarded for his smart labour, he would take no money; he wanted nothing for himself, he said, but the little sheaf he had left in the field.

Who acts: Serpent · What happens: refuse, not reward, take, want, say, leave · To what, where: money, nothing, little sheaf, field · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent), 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	_	5 rewarded	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 rewarded	aux:pass
5	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 refused	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 labour	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 labour	nmod:poss
8	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 labour	amod
9	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rewarded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 money	det
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	parataxis
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 wanted	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 wanted	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wanted	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sheaf	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sheaf	amod
29	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	nsubj:pass
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 left	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 said	ccomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 field	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 field	det
35	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Serpent				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not reward	to-infinitive · passive	Serpent not said here			for Serpent's smart labour	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for labour=Attribute
3	take	would	Serpent	no money			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	want	past	Serpent	nothing		for Serpent	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Serpent				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	leave	past · perfect · passive		the little sheaf	the field		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in field=Location

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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