The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 74
‘Madam, pardon me for my hasty words just now; I was wrong, and will thankfully accept the offer you made me.’
Who acts: Madam, I, you, my · What happens: pardon, be, accept, make, word · To what, where: me, offer
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Madam, I, you, my), 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 | _ | 4 pardon | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pardon | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pardon | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pardon | obl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 now | advmod |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pardon | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrong | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wrong | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wrong | cop |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pardon | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 accept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 accept | cc |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 accept | aux |
| 19 | thankfully | thankfully | ADV | _ | 20 accept | advmod |
| 20 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 pardon | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 offer | det |
| 22 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accept | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 offer | acl:relcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pardon | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | infinitive | Madam | me | now | for my hasty words | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for word=Attribute | ||
| 2 | is | past | I | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accept | future | the offer | thankfully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | you | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | ||||
| 5 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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