The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 118

The Count had ceased to persecute her, but he still refused his consent to the marriage.

Who acts: Count · What happens: cease, persecute, refuse, consent · To what, where: Count, maid, consent

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Count	det
2	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ceased	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ceased	aux
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 persecute	mark
6	persecute	persecute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ceased	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 persecute	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 refused	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 refused	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 refused	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 refused	advmod
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ceased	conj
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 refused	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 refused	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past · perfect · passive		the Count			tree rules
2	persecute	to-infinitive		maid			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	refuse	past	Count	Count's consent	still	to the marriage	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
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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