The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 74
O Chinese Venus! how shall I excuse myself for giving you so much trouble?
Who acts: I · What happens: excuse, give · To what, where: myself, much trouble, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 Venus | case |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Venus | amod |
| 3 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 excuse | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Venus | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 excuse | advmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 excuse | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 excuse | nsubj |
| 8 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 excuse | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 giving | mark |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 excuse | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 giving | iobj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trouble | amod |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 excuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse | shall | I | myself | of Chinese Venus | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | I not said here | much trouble | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient trouble=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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