The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 113

‘The Countess will understand that it is not your fault; the Count alone is guilty of his own death.’

Who acts: Countess, hand, Count · What happens: understand, not be, be, die · To what, where: fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countess, hand, Count), 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	_	5 understand	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Countess	det
3	Countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fault	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fault	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fault	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fault	advmod
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fault	nmod:poss
11	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 guilty	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Count	det
14	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 guilty	nsubj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 Count	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 guilty	cop
17	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 understand	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 death	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 death	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 death	amod
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 guilty	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand	future	the Countess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	present	hand	your fault		tree rules
3	is	present	the Count		of Countess's own death; guilty property	tree rules
4	die		Countess			nom death «event intransitive»: 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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