The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 105
But the cat refused to give up the ring until finally the dog threatened to kill her, and then she reluctantly gave it to him.
Who acts: cat, dog · What happens: refuse, not give up, threaten, kill, give · To what, where: ring, cat, dog
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 refused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 give | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 threatened | mark |
| 11 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 14 threatened | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threatened | nsubj |
| 14 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kill | mark |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 threatened | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 gave | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 23 gave | advmod |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the cat | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not give up | to-infinitive | the cat not said here | the ring | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Source | ||||
| 3 | threaten | past | the dog | finally property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dog not said here | cat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | cat | ring | dog | then | reluctantly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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