The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 137
The King could not refuse him this, and so he took out his tinder-box, and rubbed it once, twice, three times.
Who acts: King, fulfilment · What happens: not refuse, take out, rub · To what, where: fulfilment, tinder box, box
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, fulfilment), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 5 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 refuse | obj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 refuse | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 box | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 box | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tinder | punct |
| 17 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rubbed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rubbed | cc |
| 20 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rubbed | obj |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 rubbed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 twice | punct |
| 24 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 rubbed | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 twice | punct |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 times | nummod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rubbed | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | could | the King | fulfilment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | fulfilment | fulfilment's tinder box | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rub | past | fulfilment not said here | box | time | once, twice property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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