The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 128

“Oh, yes, Holy Man, I know it is very late, but you will forgive me!

Who acts: knocking, chance, you · What happens: know, be, forgive · To what, where: knocking · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knocking, chance, you), 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	_	10 know	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 Man	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	7 Man	compound
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 late	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 late	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 know	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forgive	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 forgive	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 forgive	aux
19	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	that knocking = knocking			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	chance		late property	tree rules
3	forgive in a quote	future	you	that knocking = knocking		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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