Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 70

"I hope you will pardon me for not being a better goose-herd," said Maximilian; "but, as I am a king, I am not used to such work."

Who acts: Maximilian, you · What happens: hope, pardon, not be, say, be, not use · To what, where: Maximilian · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maximilian, you), 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	_	3 hope	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hope	nsubj
3	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pardon	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pardon	aux
6	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hope	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pardon	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	15 herd	case
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 herd	advmod
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 herd	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 herd	det
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 herd	amod
13	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 herd	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 goose	punct
15	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pardon	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Maximilian	Maximilian	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 but	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 but	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 but	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	28 king	case
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 king	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 king	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 but	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 used	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 used	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 used	aux:pass
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 used	advmod
33	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 king	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 work	case
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 work	amod
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 used	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope in a quote	present	Maximilian			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pardon in a quote	future	you	Maximilian		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	not is in a quote	gerund			for a better goose herd	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Maximilian			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	Maximilian		as a king	tree rules
6	not use in a quote	present · passive		Maximilian	to such work	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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