The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 107

The host further refused to bury the dead man, as he had left nothing to pay the expenses of the funeral, and every night he went and scourged the dead body of his victim.

Who acts: host · What happens: refuse, not bury, leave, pay, go, scourge · To what, where: dead man, nothing, expenses, dead body

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1542): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 host	det
2	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refused	nsubj
3	further	further	ADV	_	4 refused	advmod
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bury	mark
6	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refused	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bury	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 left	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 refused	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 left	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pay	mark
17	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 expenses	det
19	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pay	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 funeral	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 funeral	det
22	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 expenses	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 night	det
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl:unmarked
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 scourged	cc
30	scourged	scourge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 went	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 body	det
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 body	amod
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scourged	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 victim	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 victim	nmod:poss
36	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 body	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the host			further property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not bury	to-infinitive	the host not said here	the dead man			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect	host	nothing			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
4	pay	to-infinitive	host not said here	the expenses of the funeral			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset
5	go	past	host		night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	scourge	past	host not said here	the dead body of host's victim			tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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