The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 7

Alonzo, however, refused to answer any of her questions, and all she could get was a promise to hear everything the next day.

Who acts: Alonzo, all · What happens: refuse, not answer, get, be, hear, question · To what, where: any, promise, everything

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo, all), 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	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 refused	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alonzo	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 refused	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 answer	mark
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 refused	xcomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 answer	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 questions	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 questions	nmod:poss
11	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 any	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 promise	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 promise	nsubj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 all	acl:relcl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 promise	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 promise	det
20	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refused	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 promise	acl
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 hear	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 day	amod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Alonzo			however property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	Alonzo not said here	any			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
3	get	could	Alonzo				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	all	a promise			tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive	Alonzo not said here	everything	day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
6	question		Alonzo				nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/11/7/