The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 111

‘Oh!’ he implored, ‘pardon my presumption; necessity alone drove me to the deed.

Who acts: marriage, necessity, my · What happens: implore, pardon, drive, presume · To what, where: presumption, me, deed

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, necessity, my), 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	_	6 implored	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 implored	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 implored	nsubj
6	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pardon	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 pardon	punct
9	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 implored	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 presumption	nmod:poss
11	presumption	presumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pardon	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 drove	punct
13	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drove	nsubj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 necessity	advmod
15	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 implored	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 drove	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 deed	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 deed	det
19	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drove	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	implore	past	marriage			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pardon	infinitive	marriage not said here	my presumption		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presumption=Theme
3	drive	past	necessity	me	the deed	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to deed=Trajectory
4	presume		my			nom presumption «cognition 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 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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