The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 6

He expected she would refuse, as he knew she hated the dwarfs, but she said nothing, and prepared the supper as he had bidden her.

Who acts: Jegu, brownie · What happens: expect, refuse, know, hate, say, prepare · To what, where: dwarfs, nothing, supper, brownie · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jegu, brownie), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 expected	nsubj
2	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 refuse	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	aux
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 expected	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hated	nsubj
11	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knew	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dwarfs	det
13	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hated	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 expected	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prepared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 prepared	cc
21	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 expected	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 supper	det
23	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prepared	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 bidden	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bidden	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bidden	aux
27	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 prepared	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bidden	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	expect	past	Jegu		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	refuse not said to happen	would	brownie		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	Jegu		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	hate	past	brownie	the dwarfs	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	brownie	nothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
6	prepare	past		the supper	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
7	bid	past · perfect	Jegu	brownie	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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