The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 134

But the more he talked the more they believed him mad and refused to let him pass.

Who acts: party, guards · What happens: talk, believe, refuse, not let, pass · To what, where: party

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party, guards), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 talked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 more	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 talked	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 more	det
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 believed	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 believed	obj
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 believed	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 refused	cc
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 let	mark
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 refused	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past	party			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	past	guards = guard	party	mad property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	refuse	past	party not said here			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not let	to-infinitive	party not said here	party		tree rules
5	pass	infinitive	party not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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