English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 29
But besides this, there is the refusal of the heroine to touch the enchanted food, just as Childe Rowland finally refuses.
Who acts: refusal, Childe · What happens: be, touch, enchant, refuse · To what, where: enchanted food, heroine
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (refusal, Childe), 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 | _ | 6 is | cc |
| 2 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 is | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 touch | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 refusal | det |
| 8 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heroine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heroine | det |
| 11 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refusal | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 touch | mark |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 food | det |
| 15 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 food | amod |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 refuses | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 refuses | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 refuses | mark |
| 20 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 refuses | nsubj |
| 21 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Childe | flat |
| 22 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 23 refuses | advmod |
| 23 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 touch | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the refusal of the heroine | there | besides this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | the enchanted food | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | refuse | present | Childe | finally property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | refuse | the heroine | nom refusal «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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