The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 102
You have not deserved any mercy, but I cannot be harsh on this day.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: not deserve, not be · To what, where: mercy
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 deserved | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deserved | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 deserved | advmod |
| 4 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 mercy | det |
| 6 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deserved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harsh | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 harsh | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 harsh | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 harsh | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 harsh | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 harsh | cop |
| 13 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deserved | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 harsh | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deserve | present · perfect | You | any mercy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | can | I | day | harsh property | tree rules |
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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