The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 47

'Mother, dear mother,' said the young man at last, 'I am almost afraid to ask you; but I really have grown so stupid of late.

Who acts: Mother, I · What happens: say, be, ask, grow · To what, where: last, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 afraid	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 afraid	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 afraid	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 afraid	cop
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 afraid	advmod
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 ask	mark
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 afraid	xcomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 ask	iobj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 grown	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 grown	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 grown	nsubj
26	really	really	ADV	_	28 grown	advmod
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 grown	aux
28	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 stupid	advmod
30	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grown	xcomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 late	case
32	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 stupid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mother and dear mother		last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I			afraid, almost property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	grow	present · perfect	I			stupid property	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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