The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 46
The king took as much as he had need of; then ordered the rest to be returned to Don Giovanni, who refused to receive it, saying, ‘Tell his majesty I am much hurt at his proposal.
Who acts: king, rest, Don · What happens: take, have, order, return, refuse, not receive · To what, where: much, need, rest, Don, majesty, I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, rest, Don), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 much | advcl |
| 9 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 need | fixed |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 ordered | advmod |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 returned | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 returned | aux:pass |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Don | case |
| 20 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 21 | Giovanni | Giovanni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Don | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 refused | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 refused | nsubj |
| 24 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Don | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 receive | mark |
| 26 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 refused | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 receive | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ordered | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Tell | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 Tell | punct |
| 32 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 saying | ccomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 34 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Tell | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 hurt | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 hurt | aux:pass |
| 37 | much | much | ADV | _ | 38 hurt | advmod |
| 38 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Tell | ccomp |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 proposal | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 41 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hurt | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | much | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | king | need | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the rest | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the rest not said here | Don | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: to don=Result | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past | Don | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not receive | to-infinitive | Don not said here | rest | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Don's majesty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | hurt | present · passive | I | Don's proposal | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 10 | propose | Don | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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