The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 74
“Dear queen of my heart,” answered he, “I pray you to forgive my carelessness.
Who acts: Dear queen · What happens: answer, pray, forgive · To what, where: Beni, carelessness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear queen), 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 | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pray | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pray | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pray | nsubj |
| 14 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 pray | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 forgive | mark |
| 17 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pray | advcl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 carelessness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgive | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Dear queen of my heart | Beni | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | Dear queen of my heart = queen | Beni | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forgive in a quote | to-infinitive | Dear queen of my heart = queen not said here | my carelessness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carelessness=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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