The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 26
So even if the Count had really wished to marry Renelde, she would always have refused.
Who acts: Renelde · What happens: wish, marry, refuse · To what, where: Count, Renelde
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 (Renelde), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 wished | advmod |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 wished | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 wished | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Count | det |
| 5 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wished | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wished | aux |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 wished | advmod |
| 8 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wished | advcl |
| 11 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 refused | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 refused | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 refused | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 refused | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 refused | aux |
| 17 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Renelde | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past · perfect · passive | the Count | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | Renelde | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renelde=Patient | |||||
| 3 | refuse | would · perfect | Renelde | Renelde not said here | always property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renelde=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 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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