More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 126
"'T is thy fault, O Childe, for which we suffer," she said; "be it thine to release us."
Who acts: T, we, O · What happens: be, suffer, say, release · To what, where: fault, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (T, we, O), 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 fault | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
| 3 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fault | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fault | cop |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 fault | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 O | punct |
| 8 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fault | appos |
| 9 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 O | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suffer | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 suffer | obl |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 suffer | nsubj |
| 14 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fault | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 it | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 it | punct |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 it | cop |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fault | conj |
| 23 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 it | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 release | mark |
| 25 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thine | advcl |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 release | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | T | thy fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffer in a quote | present | we | for thy fault | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | O | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | T not said here | fault | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | release in a quote | to-infinitive | T not said here | us | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer we=Source |
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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