The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 28
I cannot pardon that,” answered the princess’s father.
Who acts: I · What happens: not pardon, answer · To what, where: that, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pardon | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pardon | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 pardon | advmod |
| 4 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pardon | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pardon | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pardon | can | I | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the princess's father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality |
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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