Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 95
This reply made the Ogre very angry, but he was unable to refuse to do as the Prince had asked him.
Who acts: reply, Prince · What happens: make, be, refuse, not do, ask · To what, where: Ogre
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reply, Prince), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ogre | det |
| 5 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unable | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 unable | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 unable | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 unable | cop |
| 12 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 refuse | mark |
| 14 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 unable | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 refuse | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 asked | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 asked | aux |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 do | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | iobj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this reply | the Ogre | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ogre=Product | |||
| 2 | is | past | reply | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refuse | to-infinitive | reply not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not do | to-infinitive | reply not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | the Prince | Ogre | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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