The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 4

It was her mother’s fault, she said: “It was she, and not I, who passed me off as the Princess Lineik.

Who acts: mercy, Lineik · What happens: be, say, pass off · To what, where: fault, Lineik · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mercy, Lineik), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fault	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fault	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 mother	case
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fault	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 she	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 she	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 she	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 she	cop
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 I	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 I	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 I	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 she	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 passed	iobj
23	off	off	ADP	_	21 passed	compound:prt
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 Lineik	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Lineik	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Lineik	compound
27	Lineik	Lineik	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mercy	Lineik's mother's fault			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Lineik				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	past	mercy	Lineik			tree rules
4	pass off in a quote	past	Lineik		Lineik	as the Princess Lineik	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Duration as lineik=Attribute

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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