More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 69
And tell the Abbot from me that he has my pardon."
Who acts: you, Abbot, my · What happens: tell, have, pardon · To what, where: Abbot, pardon · 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 (you, Abbot, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 tell | cc |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Abbot | det |
| 4 | Abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 has | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the Abbot | from me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abbot=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | present | Abbot | my pardon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pardon | my | 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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