More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 31

"My liege," quoth the Abbot, bending low, "I beg to say that all I spend has been freely given to the Abbey out of the piety of the folk.

Who acts: liege, I · What happens: quoth, bend, beg, say, spend, give · To what, where: Abbot, all, Abbey, piety · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (liege, I), 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	_	6 quoth	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 liege	nmod:poss
3	liege	liege	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quoth	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct
6	quoth	quoth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Abbot	det
8	Abbot	Abbot	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 quoth	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bending	punct
10	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 quoth	advcl
11	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bending	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beg	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 beg	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 beg	nsubj
15	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quoth	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 beg	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 given	mark
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 given	nsubj:pass
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 spend	nsubj
21	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 all	acl:relcl
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 given	aux:pass
24	freely	freely	ADV	_	25 given	advmod
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 say	ccomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Abbey	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Abbey	det
28	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 given	obl
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 piety	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 piety	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 piety	det
32	piety	piety	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 folk	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 folk	det
35	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 piety	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	quoth	infinitive	My liege	the Abbot				tree rules
2	bend	gerund	My liege not said here				low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request in a quote	present	I					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	spend in a quote	present	I					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	give in a quote	present · perfect · passive		all	the Abbey	the piety of the folk	freely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to abbey=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: «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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