The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 39
“Pardon me, your Majesty, if I offer my advice.
Who acts: you, third Simon · What happens: pardon, offer · To what, where: third Simon, advice
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, third Simon), 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 | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 2 | Pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Pardon | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Majesty | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pardon | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offer | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 offer | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 offer | nsubj |
| 10 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pardon | advcl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 advice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offer | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the third Simon = simon | your Majesty obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the third Simon = simon | my advice | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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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