The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 26

‘A man would be mad indeed to refuse such an offer.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, refuse · To what, where: offer

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	6 mad	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mad	cop
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 refuse	mark
9	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mad	advcl
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 offer	det:predet
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 offer	det
12	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 refuse	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	a man					indeed, mad property	tree rules
2	refuse	to-infinitive	a man not said here	such offer					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme

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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