The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 66
‘So,’ replied the Town Counsellor, ‘you refuse to hold to the terms of your agreement?
Who acts: you, your · What happens: reply, refuse, not hold, term, agree · To what, where: Town Counsellor, agreement
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Counsellor | det |
| 7 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Counsellor | amod |
| 8 | Counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 refuse | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 refuse | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 refuse | nsubj |
| 12 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hold | mark |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 refuse | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 terms | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 terms | det |
| 17 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hold | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 agreement | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 agreement | nmod:poss |
| 20 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 terms | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Town Counsellor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent counsellor=Topic | |||||
| 2 | refuse | present | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not hold | to-infinitive | you not said here | to the terms of your agreement | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | term | your agreement | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | agree | your | nom agreement «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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