The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 2
“Excuse my interrupting you, but I have come on very important business.”
Who acts: you, my, I · What happens: excuse, interrupt, come · To what, where: you, important business · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my, I), 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 | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 2 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 interrupting | nsubj |
| 4 | interrupting | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Excuse | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 interrupting | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Excuse | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 business | case |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 important | advmod |
| 13 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 business | amod |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | interrupt in a quote | gerund | my | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · perfect | I | important business | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on business=Location |
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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