The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 90
He did not like doing this, he was so proud, but he could not refuse.
Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: not like, do, be, not refuse · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (bridegroom), 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 | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 like | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 doing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proud | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 proud | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 proud | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 proud | advmod |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 like | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 refuse | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 refuse | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 refuse | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 refuse | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 refuse | advmod |
| 17 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proud | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | bridegroom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | gerund | bridegroom not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bridegroom | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not refuse | could | bridegroom | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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