The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 109

Why father would never, never forgive me, if I let you do that.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not forgive, let, do · To what, where: me, you, that

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 forgive	advmod
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgive	vocative
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 forgive	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 forgive	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 never	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 forgive	advmod
7	forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 forgive	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 let	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 forgive	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 do	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forgive	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 forgive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not forgive	would		me	father vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	present	I	you		tree rules
3	do	infinitive	you not said here	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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