The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 136
She, however, refused to part with it, because she had inherited it from her mother.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: refuse, inherit · To what, where: part
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. 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 | 5 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 She | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 refused | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 part | mark |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refused | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 inherited | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 inherited | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 inherited | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 inherited | aux |
| 14 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 refused | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 inherited | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inherited | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Princess | part | with part; however property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 2 | inherit | past · perfect | Princess | part | from Princess's mother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from mother=Source |
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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