The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 39

Then the music master was asked to sell Gon to the lady, but he declined to listen to any such suggestion, so everything remained as before.

Who acts: music master, Gon · What happens: ask, sell, decline, not listen, remain · To what, where: music master, Gon, lady, everything

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music master, Gon), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 master	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 master	compound
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux:pass
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	xcomp
9	Gon	Gon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 lady	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declined	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 declined	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 declined	nsubj
16	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 listen	mark
18	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 declined	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 suggestion	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 suggestion	det
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 suggestion	amod
22	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 listen	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remained	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 remained	advmod
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 remained	nsubj:pass
26	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 asked	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 before	case
28	before	before	ADV	_	26 remained	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · passive		the music master			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the music master not said here	Gon	the lady		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gon=Theme to lady=Recipient
3	decline	past	Gon				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not listen	to-infinitive	Gon not said here			to any such suggestion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to suggestion=Theme
5	remain	participle · passive		everything		before property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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