The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 14
“I beg your pardon, mamma,” said the poor girl, “for not making more haste.”
Who acts: poor girl, your · What happens: beg, say, not make, pardon · To what, where: pardon, more haste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, your), 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 | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beg | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mamma | punct |
| 7 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pardon | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 making | mark |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 making | advmod |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 haste | amod |
| 20 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the poor girl = girl | your pardon and mamma | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poor girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not make in a quote | gerund | the poor girl not said here | more haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 4 | pardon in a quote | your | nom pardon «act 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 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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