The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 65

She refused to eat, and would not put on her fine clothes nor go out walking, and declared that she would rather die than become a laughing-stock to the world.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: refuse, not eat, not put, go out, walk, declare · To what, where: fine clothes, laughing stock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 put	advmod
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 clothes	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 clothes	nmod:poss
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clothes	amod
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 put	obl
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 go	cc
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 put	conj
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 go	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 declared	cc
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 die	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 die	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 die	aux
24	rather	rather	ADV	_	25 die	advmod
25	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 declared	ccomp
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 become	mark
27	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 die	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 stock	det
29	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stock	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 laughing	punct
31	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 become	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stock	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Princess				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not eat	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not put	would			Princess's fine clothes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination
4	go out	infinitive				out property	tree rules
5	walk	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	declare speech: other	past	Princess not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	die	would	Princess				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	become	infinitive	Princess not said here	a laughing stock to the world			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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