The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 20
Well, I cannot reproach you, though I shall have to pay heavily to my royal master for the value of that ox.
Who acts: I · What happens: not reproach, have, pay, value · To what, where: you, ox
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 reproach | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 reproach | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 reproach | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 reproach | advmod |
| 6 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 reproach | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 reproach | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pay | mark |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 14 pay | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 master | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 master | amod |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 value | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 value | det |
| 22 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ox | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 ox | det |
| 25 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 value | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reproach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reproach | can | I | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | I not said here | to my royal master; for the value of that ox; heavily property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for value=Theme | ||||
| 4 | value | that ox | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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