The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 83
‘Why did you refuse to sell my wife a pumpkin yesterday when she wanted one?’ he asked.
Who acts: you, sister, husband · What happens: refuse, not sell, want, ask · To what, where: wife, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sister, husband), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 refuse | nsubj |
| 5 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sell | mark |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 refuse | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sell | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 yesterday | det |
| 11 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yesterday | compound |
| 12 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sell | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wanted | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sell | advcl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 wanted | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past · do-support | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not sell | to-infinitive | you not said here | my wife | yesterday | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 3 | want | past | sister | one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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