The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 84
‘Believe me, madam, you will never repent of your kindness.’
Who acts: you · What happens: believe, not repent · To what, where: madam, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 Believe | punct |
| 2 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Believe | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 5 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Believe | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 repent | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 repent | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 repent | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 repent | advmod |
| 10 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Believe | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kindness | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 repent | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Believe | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | madam | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not repent | future | you | of your kindness | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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