The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 105
He flung himself down before Omar, and with tears in his eyes asked: “Can you forgive me, prince?”
Who acts: tailor, tears, you · What happens: fling down, ask, forgive · To what, where: tailor, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tailor, tears, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flung | nsubj |
| 2 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 flung | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 flung | compound:prt |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 Omar | case |
| 6 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flung | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tears | case |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tears | nmod |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flung | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgive | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgive | punct |
| 17 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 forgive | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 forgive | nsubj |
| 19 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 forgive | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prince | punct |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgive | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgive | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling down | past | tailor | tailor | before Omar | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before omar=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | tears in tailor's eyes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forgive in a quote | can | you | tears in tailor's eyes = tear | 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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