The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 110
We may hate his faults, but let us pity him and hope for his restoration.
Who acts: We, us, Darling · What happens: hate, let, pity, hope, fault · To what, where: faults, us, Darling
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, us, Darling), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hate | aux |
| 3 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 faults | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hate | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pity | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hope | cc |
| 13 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hate | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 restoration | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 restoration | nmod:poss |
| 16 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hope | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | may | We | Darling's faults | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fault=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | We not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pity | infinitive | us not said here | Darling | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hope | present | We not said here | for Darling's restoration | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for restoration=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fault | Darling | nom fault «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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