The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 75

Another time permission might have been refused him, for the farmer was no lover of humble folk, but now he gave the elder brother leave to come in, pointing out a wooden chair where he could sit.

Who acts: farmer · What happens: refuse, be, give, leave, come in, point out · To what, where: time permission, elder brother, wooden chair

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 permission	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 permission	compound
3	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 refused	nsubj:pass
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 refused	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 refused	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 refused	aux:pass
7	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 refused	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lover	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 lover	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 farmer	det
12	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lover	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lover	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 lover	det
15	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 refused	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 folk	case
17	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 folk	amod
18	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lover	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 gave	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 refused	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brother	det
25	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brother	amod
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	iobj
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 gave	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 leave	xcomp
30	in	in	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pointing	punct
32	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 gave	advcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 pointing	compound:prt
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 chair	det
35	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 chair	amod
36	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pointing	obj
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 sit	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sit	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 sit	aux
40	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 chair	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	might · perfect · passive		another time permission				tree rules
2	is	past	the farmer				for no lover; of humble folk	tree rules
3	give	past	farmer		the elder brother	now		tree rules
4	leave	infinitive	farmer not said here					tree rules
5	come in	to-infinitive	farmer not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	point out	gerund	farmer not said here	a wooden chair				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Patient
7	sit	could	farmer					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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