The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 85

Halvor would not hear of that, he was absolutely determined to stay where he was; but the old folks stuck to what they had said, and told him that he was to go to the farm, where he could get both meat and drink, whereas they themselves had not even a chair to offer him.

Who acts: Halvor, old folks, folks · What happens: not hear, be, stay, stick, say, tell · To what, where: Halvor, meat, chair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, old folks, folks), 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	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hear	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 determined	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 determined	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 determined	cop
10	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	11 determined	advmod
11	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hear	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 determined	xcomp
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 was	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 was	nsubj
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stuck	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 stuck	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 folks	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 folks	amod
21	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stuck	nsubj
22	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hear	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 what	case
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stuck	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	aux
27	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 what	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 told	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 told	cc
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stuck	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	iobj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 go	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 go	cop
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 told	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 farm	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 farm	det
39	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 get	punct
41	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 get	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 get	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 get	aux
44	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 go	advcl
45	both	both	CCONJ	_	46 meat	cc:preconj
46	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 get	obj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 drink	cc
48	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 meat	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 had	punct
50	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	53 had	mark
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 had	nsubj
52	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	51 they	nmod:unmarked
53	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 told	conj
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 chair	advmod
55	even	even	ADV	_	57 chair	advmod
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 chair	det
57	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 had	obj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 offer	mark
59	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 had	advcl
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 offer	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	would	Halvor			of that	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of that=Stimulus
2	is	past	Halvor			absolutely, determined property	tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past	Halvor				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stick	participle	the old folks				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to what=Co-Patient
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect	folks = folk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	past	the old folks not said here		Halvor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
8	is not said to happen	past	Halvor			to the farm; go property	tree rules
9	get	could	Halvor	meat and drink			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus
10	have	past	folks = folk	a chair			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Patient
11	offer	to-infinitive	folks = folk not said here	Halvor			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=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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