The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 71
“Oh, certainly,” replied the crab, “but you must forgive me if I cannot get them for you myself.
Who acts: crab, you · What happens: reply, forgive, not get · To what, where: crab · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab, 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crab | det |
| 9 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgive | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgive | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 forgive | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 forgive | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 forgive | aux |
| 15 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 forgive | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 get | advmod |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forgive | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 get | obl |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 21 get | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the crab | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | forgive in a quote | must | you | the crab = crab | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | the crab = crab | Crab | for you; myself obl:unmarked | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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