More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 32

I trust your Grace will not take it ill that I spend for the Abbey's sake what is the Abbey's."

Who acts: I, Grace, sake · What happens: trust, not take, spend, be · To what, where: liege

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 (I, Grace, sake), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 trust	nsubj
2	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Grace	nmod:poss
4	Grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 take	advmod
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trust	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 take	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 spend	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 spend	nsubj
12	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 take	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 sake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Abbey	det
15	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sake	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Abbey	case
17	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spend	obl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 Abbey	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Abbey	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Abbey	det
21	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sake	appos
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Abbey	case
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trust	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 trust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trust	present	I			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not take	future	your Grace	liege	ill property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	spend	present	I		for the Abbey's sake	vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sake=Theme
4	is	present	the Abbey's sake		's the Abbey	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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