The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 2

But you refused all the little girls we offered you, and would have nothing but the buffalo.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: refuse, offer, have · To what, where: little girls, you, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 refused	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 girls	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girls	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girls	amod
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 refused	obj
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 offered	nsubj
9	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girls	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 offered	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refused	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 have	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 buffalo	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 buffalo	det
18	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nothing	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	refuse	past	you	all little girls		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
2	offer	past	we	all little girls not said here	you	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	have	would	you not said here	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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