English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 47

When she wouldn't tell him her name, nor where she came from, he gave her a ring and told her if he didn't see her again he should die.

Who acts: dance, son · What happens: not tell, come, give, tell, not see, die · To what, where: name, son, ring, dance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance, son), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 gave	cc
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 came	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	13 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ring	det
20	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	ccomp
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 see	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 die	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 die	aux
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	would	dance	dance's name	son		tree rules
2	come	past	dance				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	son	a ring	dance		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	son not said here		dance		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	son	dance		again	tree rules
6	die	should	son				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	name		dance				nom name «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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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