More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 34
"If it may be no offence asking, what is it you feel so badly about?"
Who acts: trouble, offence · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: offence
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, offence), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 offence | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 offence | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 offence | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 offence | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 offence | cop |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 offence | det |
| 7 | offence | offence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 offence | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 offence | appos |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 feel | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 badly | advmod |
| 16 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 feel | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 feel | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 offence | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 offence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | may | trouble | no offence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | no offence not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | trouble | badly, feel property | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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