More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 63
Your Majesty thinks I am my lord the Abbot of Canterbury; but as you may see," and here he raised his cowl, "I am but his poor shepherd, that am come to ask your pardon for him and for me."
Who acts: Majesty, I, you, pardon, your · What happens: think, be, see, raise, come, ask · To what, where: lord, cowl · 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 (Majesty, I, you, pardon), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lord | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Abbot | det |
| 9 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lord | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Canterbury | case |
| 11 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abbot | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 raised | cc |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 raised | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 raised | nsubj |
| 23 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinks | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cowl | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cowl | cowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 raised | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 come | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 come | cc |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 shepherd | nmod:poss |
| 32 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shepherd | amod |
| 33 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 come | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 come | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 raised | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 ask | mark |
| 39 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 come | xcomp |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 41 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ask | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ask | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 me | cc |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 him | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Your Majesty | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | my lord | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | may | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | raise in a quote | past | Majesty | Majesty's cowl | here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cowl=Theme | |||
| 5 | come | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | your pardon | for Majesty | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | pardon | your | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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