The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 50

At first the wily fox refused to tell her what he had gathered from the conversation of the birds, but at last he gave way to her entreaties, and told her that they had spoken of the misfortunes of a beautiful young Prince, whom a wicked enchantress had turned into a snake for the period of seven years.

Who acts: wily fox, fox, birds, wicked enchantress · What happens: refuse, not tell, gather, give, tell, speak · To what, where: Grannonia, conversation, way, entreaties, last, misfortunes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wily fox, fox, birds, wicked enchantress), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 refused	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
4	wily	wily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fox	amod
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	nsubj
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refused	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 gathered	nsubj:pass
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gathered	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gathered	aux
13	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tell	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 conversation	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 conversation	det
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gathered	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 birds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 conversation	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 refused	conj
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 entreaties	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 entreaties	nmod:poss
29	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gave	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 refused	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 spoken	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 spoken	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 spoken	aux
37	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 told	ccomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 misfortunes	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 misfortunes	det
40	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 spoken	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 Prince	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 Prince	det
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Prince	amod
44	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Prince	amod
45	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 misfortunes	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 turned	punct
47	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 turned	obl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 enchantress	det
49	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 enchantress	amod
50	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 turned	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 turned	aux
52	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 misfortunes	acl
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 snake	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 snake	det
55	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 turned	obl
56	for	for	ADP	_	58 period	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 period	det
58	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 turned	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 years	case
60	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 years	nummod
61	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 period	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the wily fox					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the wily fox not said here		Grannonia			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	gather	past · perfect · passive				the conversation of the birds		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from conversation=Source
4	give	past	fox	way	Grannonia's entreaties	last		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at last=Asset to entreaty=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past	the wily fox not said here		Grannonia			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	speak speech: other	past · perfect	birds = bird				of the misfortunes of a beautiful young Prince	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	turn	past · perfect	a wicked enchantress	the misfortunes of a beautiful young Prince			into a snake result; for the period of seven years	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into snake=Result
8	converse		the birds					nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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 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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