Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 33

“Forgive us, dear master,” the servant cried.

Who acts: servant · What happens: forgive, cry · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 Forgive	punct
2	Forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Forgive	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 master	amod
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Forgive	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Forgive	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Forgive	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive in a quote	infinitive		us					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the servant						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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