The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 109
“Yes, I hear; you have spoken the truth, and I cannot blame you for what has happened.
Who acts: youth, you · What happens: hear, speak, not blame, happen · To what, where: truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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 | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 hear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoken | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 spoken | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spoken | aux |
| 9 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hear | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoken | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blame | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blame | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 blame | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 blame | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 blame | advmod |
| 17 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 spoken | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 blame | obj |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 happened | mark |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 blame | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | the youth = youth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | you | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not blame in a quote | can | the youth = youth | you | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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