Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 26
The nymph reassured him, told him she was her father's favourite, and he had never refused her a single request, and certainly would not refuse his consent to their union.
Who acts: nymph, suspicion, Romar · What happens: reassure, tell, be, not refuse, consent · To what, where: Romar, suspicion, consent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nymph, suspicion, Romar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nymph | det |
| 2 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reassured | nsubj |
| 3 | reassured | reassure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reassured | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reassured | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 father | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 father | cop |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | ccomp |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 refused | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 refused | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 refused | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 refused | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 refused | advmod |
| 19 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reassured | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 refused | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 request | det |
| 22 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 request | amod |
| 23 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 refused | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 refuse | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 refuse | cc |
| 26 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 29 refuse | advmod |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 refuse | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 refuse | advmod |
| 29 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 reassured | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 consent | nmod:poss |
| 31 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 refuse | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 union | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 union | nmod:poss |
| 34 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 refuse | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reassured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reassure | past | the nymph | Romar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the nymph not said here | Romar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | suspicion | 's suspicion's father | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not refuse | past | Romar | suspicion | a single request obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not refuse | would | Romar's consent | to nymph's union; certainly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | consent | Romar | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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