The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 113
Well, she hadn’t the heart to refuse him, and married they were the same evening.
Who acts: Norway, heart, princes · What happens: have, refuse, marry, be · To what, where: heart, king, same evening
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norway, heart, princes), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 heart | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 refuse | mark |
| 9 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 refuse | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 married | cc |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 evening | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 evening | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evening | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evening | amod |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Norway | the heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refuse | to-infinitive | the heart not said here | king | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | past | Norway not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | princes = prince | the same evening | tree rules |
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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