The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 77
I am not faithless or to blame for what has happened.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, blame, happen
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 faithless | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 faithless | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 faithless | advmod |
| 4 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 blame | cc |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blame | mark |
| 7 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 faithless | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 blame | obl |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happened | aux |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faithless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | faithless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blame | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for what=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | happen | present · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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