Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 151

He refused to take it till he had delivered his message and told all to the master.

Who acts: cowboy · What happens: refuse, not take, deliver, tell · To what, where: drink, message, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cowboy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 delivered	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 delivered	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 delivered	aux
9	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 take	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 message	nmod:poss
11	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 delivered	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 master	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 master	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 master	det
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	refuse	past	cowboy		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not take	to-infinitive	cowboy not said here	drink	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	deliver	past · perfect	cowboy	cowboy's message	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	cowboy not said here	the master	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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