The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 70
My honour would not permit me to accept his offer.”
Who acts: honour, My, fox · What happens: not permit, accept, honour, offer · To what, where: me, offer
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honour, My, fox), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 honour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 permit | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 permit | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 permit | advmod |
| 5 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 permit | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 accept | mark |
| 8 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 permit | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 offer | nmod:poss |
| 10 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accept | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 permit | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit | would | My honour | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | accept not said to happen | to-infinitive | My honour not said here | fox's offer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | honour | My | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | offer | fox | nom offer «communication 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: «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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