The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 2

But it was of no use; he declined to move out of a walk; and she was forced to hear all the jokes that were made upon her.

Who acts: horse, he, she · What happens: be, decline, not move out, force, hear, make · To what, where: walk, she, jokes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, he, she), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 use	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 use	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 declined	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 declined	nsubj
9	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 move	mark
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 declined	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 walk	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 walk	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 walk	det
15	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 move	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 forced	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 forced	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 forced	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 forced	aux:pass
20	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 declined	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 forced	xcomp
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 jokes	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 jokes	det
25	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hear	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 made	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 jokes	acl:relcl
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	horse		of no use	tree rules
2	decline	past	he			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not move out	to-infinitive	he not said here	a walk		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
4	force	past · passive		she		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	hear	to-infinitive	she not said here	all jokes		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus
6	make	past · passive		all jokes	upon her = she	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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