The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 75
As to her food, she refused one thing after another.
Who acts: woman · What happens: refuse · To what, where: one thing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 food | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 food | nmod:poss |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refused | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 food | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 refused | nsubj |
| 7 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 thing | nummod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refused | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 refused | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | woman | one thing | after another | as woman's food | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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