The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 104
But the Count in his pride refused more than ever to give his consent to the marriage.
Who acts: Count · What happens: refuse, give, pride, consent · To what, where: more, consent, marriage
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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 | _ | 7 refused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Count | det |
| 3 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pride | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pride | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Count | nmod |
| 7 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 refused | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 give | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 more | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 consent | nmod:poss |
| 14 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 marriage | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 marriage | det |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the Count in Count's pride | more | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | the Count in Count's pride not said here | Count's consent | the marriage | ever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to marriage=Recipient | ||
| 3 | pride | Count | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | consent | Count | nom consent «communication transitive»: 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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