The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 96

The young man walked sadly away, and when he reached the palace he shut himself into his room, and for the rest of the day refused to see anyone, not even his wife.

Who acts: young man, death · What happens: walk, reach, shut, refuse, not see · To what, where: palace, death, room, anyone

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, death), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shut	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shut	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 reached	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shut	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shut	nsubj
15	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 shut	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 room	nmod:poss
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shut	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 refused	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 refused	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 rest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 refused	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rest	nmod
28	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 refused	xcomp
31	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 see	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wife	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 wife	advmod
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 wife	advmod
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 anyone	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the young man			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	death	the palace			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
3	shut	past	death	death	death's room		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	refuse	past	the young man not said here			for the rest of the day	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not see	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	anyone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus

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.

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