The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 32

‘Well, for your sake I will forgive him,’ said the old man, ‘I am not revengeful.

Who acts: I, old man · What happens: forgive, say, not be · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old man), 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	_	9 forgive	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 forgive	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sake	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sake	nmod:poss
6	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forgive	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 forgive	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 forgive	aux
9	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forgive	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forgive	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 forgive	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 revengeful	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 revengeful	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 revengeful	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 revengeful	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 revengeful	advmod
22	revengeful	revengeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forgive	future	I	man	for your sake	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for sake=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is	present	I		revengeful property	tree rules

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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