The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 117

Jesper again refused, but the old lady was so pressing, and would take no refusal, that at last he said:

Who acts: Jesper, old lady · What happens: refuse, press, take, say · To what, where: refusal, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jesper, old lady), 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	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 refused	nsubj
2	again	again	ADV	_	3 refused	advmod
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pressing	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 pressing	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pressing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pressing	aux
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 pressing	advmod
11	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 refused	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 refused	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 refusal	det
17	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 that	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 take	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 last	acl:relcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Jesper			again		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	press	past · progressive	the old lady					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	take	would		no refusal	last		that obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent refusal=Theme at last=Asset
4	say speech: assert	past	Jesper	last not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent last=Topic

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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