The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 56
Forgive me, my lord and husband,” she added, turning to the king, “for trying to find out the truth in this way.
Who acts: you, queen · What happens: forgive, add, turn, try, find out · To what, where: me, lord, truth, way · 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 (you, queen), 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 | Forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Forgive | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Forgive | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 husband | cc |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lord | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lord | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turning | punct |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Forgive | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turning | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trying | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 trying | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 trying | mark |
| 20 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 turning | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trying | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 find | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 truth | det |
| 25 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | imperative | you not said here | me | my lord and husband obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | queen | my lord and husband not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | gerund | to the king result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result | |||||
| 4 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the truth | this way | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |
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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