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title: But besides this, there is the refusal of the heroine to touch the e… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 29

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But besides this, there is the refusal of the heroine to touch the enchanted food, just as Childe Rowland finally refuses.

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**Who acts:** refusal, Childe · **What happens:** be, touch, enchant, refuse · **To what, where:** enchanted food, heroine

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:71:29
# text = But besides this, there is the refusal of the heroine to touch the enchanted food, just as Childe Rowland finally refuses.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	refuses	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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