The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 58
“Your Majesty must pardon us; but just think for a moment.
Who acts: Majesty · What happens: pardon, think · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty), 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 | _ | 5 pardon | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pardon | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pardon | aux |
| 5 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pardon | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 think | cc |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 think | advmod |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pardon | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | must | Your Majesty | us | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | Your Majesty not said here | moment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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