The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 47

If I had deserved my father’s anger I would suffer without a murmur, but, alas! he is unjust to complain of me, when I have always treated him with love and respect.”

Who acts: I, father · What happens: deserve, suffer, be, complain, treat, anger · To what, where: anger, I

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (I, father), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 deserved	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 deserved	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deserved	aux
4	deserved	deserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 suffer	advcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anger	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deserved	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 suffer	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 suffer	aux
11	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 murmur	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 murmur	det
14	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suffer	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unjust	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 unjust	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 alas	punct
18	alas	alas	INTJ	_	22 unjust	discourse
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 alas	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 unjust	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 unjust	cop
22	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 suffer	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 complain	mark
24	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 unjust	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 complain	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 treated	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 treated	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 treated	nsubj:pass
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 treated	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 treated	advmod
32	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 unjust	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 treated	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 love	case
35	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 treated	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 respect	cc
37	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 love	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 suffer	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 suffer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deserve a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	my father's anger		tree rules
2	suffer	would	I		without a murmur	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	father		unjust property	tree rules
4	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	father not said here		of me	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	treat	present · perfect · passive		I	with love and respect; always property	tree rules
6	anger		my father			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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