The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 29

The reputation of having written all the fairy books (an European reputation in nurseries and the United States of America) is ‘the burden of an honour unto which I was not born.’

Who acts: reputation · What happens: have, write, be, not bear · To what, where: written fairy books, burden, I

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reputation), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reputation	det
2	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burden	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 having	mark
4	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 reputation	acl
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 books	amod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 books	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 books	det
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 books	compound
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 having	obj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 reputation	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 reputation	det
12	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reputation	amod
13	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 books	appos
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 nurseries	case
15	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reputation	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 States	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 States	det
18	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 States	amod
19	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 reputation	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 America	case
21	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 States	nmod
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 reputation	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 burden	cop
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 burden	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 burden	det
26	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 honour	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 honour	det
29	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 burden	nmod
30	unto	unto	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 born	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 born	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 born	aux:pass
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 born	advmod
35	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 honour	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 burden	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 burden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	the reputation not said here	all written fairy books		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
2	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the reputation	the burden	of a honour	tree rules
4	not bear	past · passive		I	unto a honour	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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