The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 74

'Pardon me, fair lady, but it is MY doe you are trying to steal!'

Who acts: you, wretch · What happens: pardon, be, try, steal · To what, where: me, doe

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wretch), 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 lady	punct
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pardon	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doe	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 doe	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 doe	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 doe	cop
11	MY	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 doe	nmod:poss
12	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pardon	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 trying	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 trying	aux
15	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 doe	appos
16	to	to	PART	_	17 steal	mark
17	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trying	xcomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Pardon	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Pardon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pardon	imperative	you not said here	me	fair lady obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	is a	present	wretch	MY doe		tree rules
3	try	present · progressive	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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