The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 99

Simon replied that the king of the country had insisted on giving him one of his daughters as a wife, but that he had refused the honour because he was too old and too frail.

Who acts: Simon, king · What happens: reply, insist, give, refuse, be · To what, where: one, honour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, king), 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	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 insisted	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 insisted	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 insisted	aux
10	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 replied	ccomp
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 giving	mark
12	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 insisted	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 giving	iobj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 giving	iobj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 daughters	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughters	nmod:poss
17	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wife	det
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 daughters	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 refused	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 refused	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 refused	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 refused	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 refused	aux
26	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 replied	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 honour	det
28	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 refused	obj
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 old	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 old	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 old	cop
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 old	advmod
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 refused	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 frail	cc
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 frail	advmod
36	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 old	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Simon				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	insist speech: other	past · perfect	the king of the country				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	give	gerund	the king of the country not said here		one of Simon's daughters as a wife		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme
4	refuse	past · perfect	Simon	the honour			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme
5	is	past	Simon			old property	tree rules
6	be		Simon not said here				tree rules

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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