The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 81

At first he refused to tell her, but she then related to him her own story, and how she had succeeded in delivering the lindorm.

Who acts: man, queen · What happens: refuse, not tell, relate, succeed, deliver · To what, where: queen, own story, man, lindorm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 refused	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refused	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 related	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 related	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 related	nsubj
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 related	advmod
12	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 related	obl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 story	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 related	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 succeeded	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 succeeded	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 succeeded	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 succeeded	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 succeeded	aux
23	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 refused	conj
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 delivering	mark
25	delivering	deliver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 succeeded	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lindorm	det
27	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 delivering	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	refuse	past	man				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	man not said here		queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	relate	past	queen	queen's own story	man	then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to he=Recipient
4	succeed	past · perfect	queen				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	deliver	gerund	queen not said here	the lindorm			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lindorm=Patient

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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